The vitality supplier said Friday's absence of coal utilization was a "watershed" minute.
England's longest nonstop vitality period without coal as of not long ago was 19 hours - first accomplished keep going May, and again on Thursday.
The administration arrangements to eliminate Britain's last plants by 2025 keeping in mind the end goal to cut carbon emanations.
Friday is thought to be the first run through the country has not utilized coal to create power since the world's initially unified open coal-let go generator opened in 1882, at Holborn Viaduct in London. Cordi O'Hara of the National Grid stated: "To have the main working day without coal since the begin of the mechanical unrest is a watershed minute in how our vitality framework is evolving.
"The UK profits by very various and adaptable wellsprings of power. Our vitality blend keeps on changing and National Grid adjusts framework operation to grasp these progressions."
In any case, Ms O'Hara says that while the nation makes the move to a low carbon framework, coal remains a critical wellspring of vitality.
As indicated by Gridwatch.co.uk, around half of British vitality on Friday originated from gaseous petrol, with about a quarter originating from atomic plants.
Wind, biomass, and imported vitality were likewise utilized.
AnalysisBy John Moylan, BBC industry reporter
Coal has controlled Britain for over a century.
In any case, Friday's point of interest minute - the initial 24 hour time span with no coal controlled era - is an indication of how the once powerful fuel is being dispatched to history.
Some portion of the reason is that sunlight based boards and wind turbines now give a great deal greater power to processing plants and homes. Bring down power request is a variable as well - that is ordinary on a Friday.
Also, as more seasoned, uneconomic coal let go plants have shut as of late, the petroleum derivative has been assuming a substantially littler part in our vitality framework.
The last profound coal mine in the UK, Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, shut in December 2015, conveying to an end hundreds of years of profound coal mining in Britain.
Hannah Martin, from Greenpeace UK, stated: "10 years prior, a day without coal would have been unbelievable, and in 10 years' chance our vitality framework will have fundamentally changed once more."
Coal remained a predominant piece of the vitality supply until the 1990s, however its utilization has fallen as of late, as plants shut or changed to consuming biomass, for example, wood pellets.
It represented only 9% of power era in 2016 - down from 23% the prior year.
Nonetheless, there have been cases that utilizing wood pellets to create power is really accelerating, not backing off, atmosphere warming.
A review distributed by Chatham House in February said wood is not carbon unbiased and emanations from pellets are higher than coal, making pellet utilize a defective strategy.
The vitality business dismisses the report, saying that wood vitality cuts carbon essentially contrasted and petroleum derivatives.
Key minutes for coal-let go control
1882 - The world's first open coal-terminated producing plant is opened at Holborn Viaduct in London
1956 - The Clean Air Act (1956) is acquainted with handle the brown haze made by coal let go stations. Coal-consuming force stations are moved out of urban communities
1970s - Coal for warming homes is progressively supplanted by gaseous petrol from the North Sea
1980s - Nuclear power develops to around 25% of power era
1990s - 'Dash for gas' as petroleum gas develops to around 30% of power era, to a great extent substituting for coal
2015 - Renewables represent 25% of energy supply
2016 - Government says it needs Britain's last coal control plants to close by 2025
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