Fiddlers Ferry Power Station

Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is the name of a 1989MW coal fired electricity generating power station located between Widnes and Warrington, England. Electricity generation is the process of converting non-electrical Energy to Electricity. A power station (also referred to as generating station, power plant or powerhouse) is an industrial facility for the generation of Widnes is an industrial town within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England with an urban area population of 57663 in Warrington is a large town borough and Unitary authority area in Cheshire, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The station is owned and operated by Scottish and Southern Energy plc. Scottish and Southern Energy plc ( is a leading British -based energy company

It has eight cooling towers (hence its nickname 'The Eight Towers') and takes its water requirements from the River Mersey alongside. Cooling towers are heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heat to the Atmosphere. See also Mersey River (Tasmania and Mersey River (Nova Scotia. Since the deep mines in the Lancashire coalfield closed, all its coal is either imported, or supplied from mines in Yorkshire. One of its cooling towers collapsed on Friday 13 January 1984, due to the freak high winds of that winter, but has since been rebuilt.

The station was buit by the CEGB but was transferred to Powergen PLC after privatisation. The Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB was the cornerstone of the British electricity industry for almost 40 years from 1957 to Privatisation in the EON UK is an energy company in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of E The station, along with Ferrybridge Power Station, a 1995MW coal-fired station in Yorkshire, was then sold to Edison Mission Energy in 1999, sold on to AEP Energy Services Ltd in 2001 and both were sold again in July 2004 to Scottish and Southern Energy for £136m. There have been three Power stations constructed at Ferrybridge, a small village situated on the River Aire, just off the junction of the A1 and Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain.

By 2008, Fiddlers Ferry will be fitted with an FGD (Flue Gas Desulphurisation) plant, significantly reducing the emissions of sulphur oxides, one of the principal causes of acid rain. Sulfur or sulphur (ˈsʌlfɚ see spelling below) is the Chemical element that has the Atomic number 16 It also burns biofuels together with the coal. This work will commence 2006 and should be complete by 2008. Imported Coal is supplied largely by train from Liverpool docks. Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary

It can be spotted from as far away as the Peak District. The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater