Talk:Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station

Which Babcock?
I would assume that the boilers were constructed by the UK B&W, now trading under the name Doosan Babcock, rather than the US Babcock & Wilcox. I have no evidence for this other than common sense, however, so I'll leave the link as it is for now. If someone could find out and make sure it's correct, that would be useful. Adacore (talk) 02:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * You're right, the boilers were built by Babcock & Wilcox UK, renamed Babcock Power Ltd in the 1970s, and now trading as Doosan Babcock --Sunbite (talk) 09:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Not sure what happened here, but as of 2023 the link was going to the US company, so in the absence of further discussion I have pointed it at the UK company. GA-RT-22 (talk) 23:41, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

What are the C02 Emissions of this power station
What are the CO2 emissions from this power station?

E.ON doesn't say, but it does provide the information to allow it to be calculated.

For its renewable site at Scroby Sands wind farm it says that it "produces power for 30000 homes, saving the emission of 67802 tonnes of carbon dioxide" (and also nearly 600 tonnes of sulphur dioxide and nearly 200 tonnes of oxides of nitrogen each year). This allows us to calculate that each home is equivalent to 2.26 tonnes CO2.

They also state that the Ironbridge Power Station is a coal powered station with 1000MWhour and this is capable of supplying 750,000 homes.

And that Ratcliffe is 2000 MWhours, which one can assume is enough to supply 1,500,000 homes.

So... 1,500,000 * 2.26 = 3,390,000 tonnes CO2.

If anyone can find a more accurate figure with a suitable reference then please replace my figures. PeterEastern (talk) 19:50, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Environmental Protests
Is it still correct to say that "a number of environmental protests have been associated with the plant" in the introduction? It's been 5 years since there were any environmental protests there, and other coal power stations have been targetted, which don't have the same line in the introduction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.44.230.210 (talk) 14:30, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

No longer owned by E.ON
This power station is now owned by Uniper after E.ON split its business in two. Most of the E.ON related links are no longer valid. The.spike (talk) 12:08, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

History
'The public enquiry...' What was its brief? 'It was approved...' What was? Notreallydavid (talk) 10:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC)