| Re: For those of our members / readers who don't like coal fired power stations ... Posted by stuving at 19:58, 3rd October 2025 |     |
Good news for the environment, but a bit worrying from the energy security point of view.
I hoped that greater progress would have been made towards increasing renewable power generation, and increasing large scale electricity storage.
I hoped that greater progress would have been made towards increasing renewable power generation, and increasing large scale electricity storage.
What you want is one thing, what you're likely to get is another. In this case, for example, SSE Hydrogen Developments are currently going through planning (a DCO) for "Ferrybridge Next Generation Power Station". The main proposal is for 1.2 GW from two gas turbines burning hydrogen, but with options for combined or open cycle and for some or all of the fuel to be natural gas if there's not enough hydrogen available to start with. Pre-application consultation new open.
| Re: For those of our members / readers who don't like coal fired power stations ... Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:17, 3rd October 2025 | |
I rather thought that my even starting this topic would rattle the bars of your cage, broadgage.
| Re: For those of our members / readers who don't like coal fired power stations ... Posted by broadgage at 19:05, 3rd October 2025 | |
Good news for the environment, but a bit worrying from the energy security point of view.
I hoped that greater progress would have been made towards increasing renewable power generation, and increasing large scale electricity storage.
| Re: For those of our members / readers who don't like coal fired power stations ... Posted by johnneyw at 10:32, 3rd October 2025 | |
I've watched it three times now: I think it's great! CfN.
It somehow reminded me of one of those unfolding disaster sequences in a old episode of Thunderbirds.
| Re: For those of our members / readers who don't like coal fired power stations ... Posted by stuving at 22:50, 2nd October 2025 | |
Lest you get the idea that those absorbers demolished last year were part of the original 1961-1966 build, they were in fact part of the flue gas desulphurisation system installed 2000-2003 (along with new chimneys). You may recall that our Scandinavian friends had been complaining for many years about acid rain, and this was the response.
Note that West Burton B plant was planned later on, to be equipped with FGD from the start, but was never built and that name now applies to a gas power station (CCGT).
| For those of our members / readers who don't like coal fired power stations ... Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 22:29, 2nd October 2025 | |
... and I understand there are a few of you
Video coverage, from the BBC.
A "triple explosive demolition" has taken place at what was one of the last remaining coal-fired power stations in the UK.
Footage showed the moment two absorbers and a coal boom stacker were demolished at West Burton A power station on Thursday morning, as part of work to turn the site into the UK's first prototype commercial nuclear fusion reactor.
Constructed in 1961, the plant was situated in "Megawatt Valley", near the River Trent, where the cooling towers of 14 power stations once dominated the landscape.
The plant closed in March 2023 and the site is due to be cleared by 2028.
Footage showed the moment two absorbers and a coal boom stacker were demolished at West Burton A power station on Thursday morning, as part of work to turn the site into the UK's first prototype commercial nuclear fusion reactor.
Constructed in 1961, the plant was situated in "Megawatt Valley", near the River Trent, where the cooling towers of 14 power stations once dominated the landscape.
The plant closed in March 2023 and the site is due to be cleared by 2028.
It's a video report, so you will need to click on the link to the BBC to
I've watched it three times now: I think it's great! CfN.
