Good morning.
This week the UK passed two historic landmarks in our green energy transition: the end of coal-fired electricity, and the shutdown of the last blast furnace at Port Talbot steelworks. For the country that pioneered the Industrial Revolution, where a million workers were employed in coal mining 100 years ago, the closure of the power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, with its vast cooling towers, marked the end of an era.