Looks like some of the remaining coal fired power stations are being warmed up to support the grid in response to little wind, high gas prices and a fire shutting down one of the French interconnects.
"The market price at one of the UK?s main electricity auctions cleared at a record price of £2,500 per megawatt-hour for the hours of peak demand on Wednesday, compared with a typical baseload price of about £40/MWh throughout 2019 and 2020."
Get the scrubbers working.
That's no way to refer to the 'me too' brigade. But I do privately agree.
Well they will just have to tell those electric car owners to work from home then. Brian
There is a viewpoint near me where you can see Ferry Bridge, Eggborough and Drax.
Ferrybridge is making smoke but it's not coal.
Dust from the final cooling towers being demolished ...
The ground shook in Fishlake and Scawthorpe to my knowledge
Bill
I'm told at one time five power stations could be seen from a point on the M62. Ferry bridge, Eggborough, Drax, West Burton and Skelton Grange if memory serves correctly. The green dullards aided and abetted by Ed Moribund and the EU large emitter directives have demolished Ferry bridge. Skelton Grange, Eggborough and half of West Burton. Also gone are Rugely, Ironbridge, Longannnet, Higher Marnham, Didcot, Tilbury, Drakelow, Bold and Cockenzie amongst others from the coal fired fleet. F****ng stupidity!
Amen to that.
Large Combustion Directive alone was reason to leave the f****ng EU.
Which coal fired stations remain operational? I am not paying the Guardian to find out :-)
I thought Germany and Poland burned far more coal than we do and they are still in the EU.
They do, they fitted flue sulphur scrubbers so they don't need to close under LCPD, but even our coal plant where we also fitted the scrubbers is closing anyway (Ratcliffe on Soar)
Germany and Poland broke EU rules. We didnt
Remember the most prime ecoBollox? directive was to increase renewable generation - the Renewable Obligation. As renewable energy doesn't work people then simply built more co9al power stations to do the actual generation.
Britain was stupid enough t attempt to actually reduce emissions by burning gas.
of course we didn't; we always dotted all the 'i's and crossed all the 't's of every EU directive.
Drax, I think, although it can also burn wood-chip.
Imported from America, ferried over by sumpo-oil fueled cargo ships.
I think its final coal-only unit stopped burning coal last year, it was kept in some sort of reserve coal capacity for a short while and is now getting converted to woodchip, like the other units, and woodchip's "eco" credentials have been called out as "not so eco" now ...
No, there are a couple of others still left as well
West Burton still has two of the original four sets running. It was West Burton fly ash that was used as pozzolan in the Thames flood barrier. Shipped down by the trainload.
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