Monday is a historic day for Britain's industrial heritage.
The UK will become the first major economy to no longer produce electricity from burning coal, as the UK's final coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, will power down today for the last ever time.
Closure of the last coal power station, owned by Germany's Uniper, brings to a close 142 years of fossil fuel combustion to make electricity.
Britain has closed 15 coal-fired power stations in the past three and a bit decades, with Drax Group (LSE:DRX) closing its coal-fired operations in North Yorkshire 2021 and SSE PLC (LSE:SSE) closing its Fiddler's Ferry coal-fired power station in 2020.
Ratcliffe’s closure will make Britain the first among G7 nations to entirely scrap the fuel.
And in Port Talbot, Wales, the UK's last remaining blast furnace will stop producing steel also today, as it moves to a cleaner method.
Indian owner Tata Steel is expected to remove the last usable liquid iron from blast furnace number four this afternoon.
This will end production of liquid iron at the site, with Tata Steel switching to an electric arc furnace, with construction of a £1.25 billion new furnace set to begin next year and scheduled to start production in 2027.
As with the ending of coal power, this method of steel production is less polluting, because instead of burning coke coal it uses electric currents to melt scrap iron and steel instead - though it will lead to 2,800 job losses.