Uniper has announced the end of its Ratcliffe-on-Soar power plant, in Nottingham, UK. In a post on LinkedIn, the Uniper team comments: ‘This marks a key milestone, not only for Uniper, but also in the UK’s journey to clean power.’

Since first commissioning in 1967, the Ratcliffe plant has produced enough energy to make more than 21 trillion cups of tea and its 2GW capacity has been enough to power two million homes. The post continues: ‘And its eight iconic 114-metre-high cooling towers are a key part of the East Midlands skyline.’ Following its closure, the site will go through a decommissioning process, which is expected to last around two years. After this, the site can be handed over for the next part of the process.

The closing of the UK’s oldest and last plants sees the end of 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation that sparked the Industrial Revolution.