E.On closes Ironbridge
E.On finally closed its Ironbridge power station on 20 November, after 46 years in service.
E.On finally closed its Ironbridge power station on 20 November, after 46 years in service.
The government is consulting on its plans to implement a trading scheme for large combustion plants that have to install anti-pollution measures by 2020 to meet EU restrictions.
Scottish Power’s decision to close its ageing coal-fired station at Longannet, and cancel plans for a new gas-fired station at its Cockenzie site, has again raised the issue of the effect of location-based “transmission network use of system” (TNU
The two operating units at Ferrybridge coal-fired station will close next year, SSE said, announcing its results for the year to end March 2015.
Developers are eyeing up the site formerly occupied by ScottishPower’s 1,200MW Cockenzie coal-fired plant north of Edinburgh. The station closed in 2013, has been decommissioned and is now partially demolished.
James Busche, chief executive of Uskmouth Power, talks about regulatory uncertainty and biomass
Even in adverse market conditions the UK could shut down all its coal plant by 2023 and still “comfortably secure the system until such time as replacement capacity is commissioned”, according to a new report by Trilemma UK for the European Climat
Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing has called for levies made on coal mined in Scotland, which total £15 million, to be passed to Scotland from Westminster so they can be used to restore opencast mine sites.
Will old coal be phased out around 2023, as policymakers have assumed, or will it still be in operation? Work by Imperial College researchers, on behalf of WWF, suggests that the Capacity Market (CM) has little effect on that outcome.