For me the term power station always conjures up images of monster buildings with attached chimneys and cooling towers. But times are changing. Over the last 5 years the decrease in coal powered generation in the UK has been dramatic; falling from 42% to 6% of power generated, an 86% decrease. From the charts it appears that we are soon to have quarters with no coal generation. In the weekly data for the past year this decrease is even more marked. During the summer months, when electricity demand falls by about 20% and solar generation becomes more active, there were weeks during which coal only provided 0.26% of total generation, and the UK had 1,898 coal-free hours during 2018 ( ie almost 80 days). So, to start with the basic questions. How many are left? Where are they? What size are they? Who owns them? How are they planning to deal with the increasing pressure to decarbonise electricity generation in the UK? As usual Wikipedia has the answer , that being sev