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Generation at the adjacent coal station is unaffected.
The owners of the Vales Point coal station have been registered under the scheme.
E.ON is planning the first new coal station since 1986 on its site at Kingsnorth in Kent.
An existing coal station owned by the German energy corporation in Ratcliffe on Soar will be targeted by a coalition of environmental activists later this month.
Officially, the new coal station has only been deferred for two to three years, but campaigners are viewing the annoucement as an effective cancellation.
And just the other month Aberthaw coal station in Wales was informed it would be taken to court by EU authorities for its persistently and dangerously high nitrogen dioxide (NOx) emissions.
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Renewable capacity cannot yet make up the difference.The simplest solution would be to keep coal stations alight.
Gas-powered electricity generators have plenty of spare capacity and spew out much less carbon dioxide than coal stations.
However, with four large coal stations closing ahead of next winter it is questionable whether existing measures will be enough".
This means the widespread use of existing coal stations beyond 2030 would also put the UK's overall emissions target well out of reach.
There are no major plans to build clean coal stations, but that is what Spencer Abraham, the US energy secretary, advised George Bush and Tony Blair in July 2003.
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