Talk:List of power stations in England

alternative format
I've made a start on a possible new version of this list in sortable table format at User:Thryduulf/List of power stations in the United Kingdom. I'll probably not do any more to it unless people think it's worthwhile (others are free to contribute to it though), please comment at User talk:Thryduulf/List of power stations in the United Kingdom. Thryduulf (talk) 15:10, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

"Counties"
Half the "counties" listed in the "counties" column are not counties. Ealing, for example, is not a county. Neither is 'Barking and Dagenham', it's a borough council area. Either there should be the actual counties or the column should be removed as being meaningless. Alan162 (talk) 00:31, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Load factors
This paper lists recent load factors on page 5-7. Seems to be similar to capacity factor, but I'm not sure. . Source: Tools and Other Data: Draft Annual Load Factors 2014-15 TGCP (talk) 20:31, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Missing Power Stations
I am sure there are quite a few missing. How about Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station for a start. Opened 1956 (by Her Majesty), Closed around 2004 86.157.139.30 (talk) 17:07, 30 August 2016 (UTC) Oops - I just found it is there - but well out of alphabetical order so I missed it first time. 86.157.139.30 (talk) 17:09, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

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"Thermal"
The main heading is "Thermal", but are the small hydro schemes listed in the "Non-fossil" sub-heading in the wrong place? Or should we take out the "Thermal" heading?Crinoline (talk) 15:32, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Fixed! Simonjon (talk) 16:38, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

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List of current power stations in England
Is there a reason we don't have an article "List of current power stations in England"? It would seem to be an easy one to create! Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 22:50, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Proposal to change classification of power stations from "fossil" and "non-fossil" to a better defined "combustion" and "non-combustion"
There's a potential that the distinction made between "Fossil" and "Non-fossil and nuclear" power stations. The distinction is clear between non combustion and combustion based power stations - power stations that run on wind, wave, hydro and nuclear power and power stations that run on flamable substances. The potential problem with current distinctions is that gas powered power stations can run on either natural or biogas (or if they're designed for it, hydrogen); oil power stations can run on fossil oils or vegitable oil and solid fuel power stations can often run on biomass or coal.

In the article section "Non-fossil and nuclear" the Drax power station in Selby is listed as Biomass (compressed wood pellets) while http://www.powerstations.uk/drax-power-station-north-yorkshire/ indicates Bituminous Coal as primary fuel and both Biomass and Petcoke as additional fuels. Google's satelite image indicates a large, black storage yard https://www.google.com/maps/place/53%C2%B044'12.8%22N+0%C2%B059'48.4%22W/@53.7364441,-1.0067994,1007a,35y,282.09h/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d53.7368889!4d-0.9967778.

A danger is that it would be easy for a company related editor to clean up a company's image just by a simple recategorisation. There'd be no faulting the editing. The Drax plant is a biomass plant (at least at the times when biomass is getting blasted in). However, the fact that it is / can be also used for burning fossil fuels blurs the edges of the current categorisation scheme.

GregKaye 08:45, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree that the old distinction is obsolete. I support the new definition. TGCP (talk) 10:25, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * As a WikiProject Energy participant, I've updated the article to make the first table cover Thermal (coal, gas, oil, nuclear, waste) power stations, and then edited the second table to be Non Thermal, including hydropower and links to the wind farm list articles. Have also updated several of the plants. Splitting by technology is neater than fuel (non/fossil) given that biomass and waste plants are technically both thermal and renewable. Drax Power Plant, by the way, has since 2018 had four out of six units fuelled by biomass (wood pellets). The remaining two units are planned to be converted from coal to Combined Cycle Gas Turbines by 2025, but either way it will continue to be a mix of renewable and fossil, but wholly thermal. Simonjon (talk) 16:37, 4 September 2019 (UTC)