{"id":8186,"date":"2020-04-24T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T06:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=8186"},"modified":"2020-04-23T21:41:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:41:38","slug":"in-the-northeast-of-england-former-coal-mines-could-soon-be-turned-into-a-geothermal-energy-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/environmental-news-en\/in-the-northeast-of-england-former-coal-mines-could-soon-be-turned-into-a-geothermal-energy-project\/","title":{"rendered":"In the northeast of England, former coal mines could soon be turned into a geothermal energy project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Plans are being formed to turn abandoned coal mines in the northeast of England into a renewables project that will harness geothermal energy to heat buildings. In a statement Tuesday, South Tyneside Council said its cabinet would be asked to approve the appointment of a main designer for the project, which will draw geothermal energy from flooded mines at the old Hebburn Colliery, next week. Described by the U.S. Department of Energy as a \u201cvital, clean energy resource,\u201d geothermal energy refers to heat from under the Earth\u2019s surface which can be used to produce renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>As a source of power, coal\u2019s importance \u2014 in the U.K. at least \u2014 is also fading. According to the government, Britain\u2019s \u201creliance on coal for electricity\u201d has fallen from 70% in 1990 to under 3% today. Provisional statistics released by the government at the end of March showed that electricity provided by coal-fired generators dropped by nearly 60% in 2019 compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Already, 2020 has seen several coal facilities in Europe close their doors. Two coal-fired facilities in the U.K., operated by SSE and RWE, shut down on the same day at the end of March, while Austria\u2019s last operational coal-fired power station closed last week. In February, energy firm Drax said coal-fired electricity production at the U.K.\u2019s largest power plant was expected to end in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/04\/23\/former-coal-mines-could-be-turned-into-geothermal-energy-project.html\">CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans are being formed to turn abandoned coal mines in the northeast of England into a renewables project that will harness geothermal energy to heat&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[687,124,87,1477],"class_list":["post-8186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","tag-coal","tag-energy","tag-england","tag-geothermal-energy","wpcat-31-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UK_maaseutu.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8188,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions\/8188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}