With the closure of the last coal-fired power station in the UK, it is raising questions about how old fossil fuel infrastructure can be repurposed.

The closure of Britain’s last coal-fired power plant is the end, in effect, of an industry that has played a critical role in shaping the country’s economy over three centuries. It is also testament to a remarkably successful drive to stamp down on the dirtiest source of carbon emissions.

The UK’s last remaining coal-fired power station will shut down on Monday, drawing to a close Britain’s 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel to produce electricity.Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station has been generating electricity since 1968 via its four coal-fired boilers,