5721 x 3814 px | 48,4 x 32,3 cm | 19,1 x 12,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
9 juin 2015
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Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in Halton, Cheshire, UK. Pictured Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a coal fired power station located in Cuerdley, Cheshire, in North West England, which is capable of co-firing biomass. It is situated on the north bank of the River Mersey between the towns of Widnes and Warrington. Opened in 1971, the station has a generating capacity of 1, 989 megawatts (MW). In a bid to combine efforts at the design and construction stages the Boiler and Turbo-generator plant were replicated at West Burton power station located between Retford and Gainsborough in North Nottinghamshire. Fiddlers Ferry power station was built by the Cleveland Bridge Company and came into full operation in 1973.[2][3] One of the station's cooling towers collapsed in high winds on 13 January 1984. It has since been rebuilt. The station was built by the CEGB but was transferred to Powergen PLC after privatisation of the UK's electricity industry in 1990. Fiddlers Ferry, along with Ferrybridge Power Station in Yorkshire, was then sold to Edison Mission Energy in 1999. They were then sold on to AEP Energy Services Ltd in 2001, and both were sold again in July 2004 to Scottish and Southern Energy for £136 million. When it was built, the station mainly burned coal mined in the South Yorkshire Coalfield and transported across the Pennines on the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway. Today, all coal for the station is imported. The coal is imported by large bulk carriers via the nearby Liverpool Docks and was until May 2015 also via Ellesmere Port via coastal ships. Biomass is also imported via Liverpool Docks. UK Great Britain British United Kingdom Europe European island England English isle northern northwest UK Gtr greater city centre town
