Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station

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The German-owned electricity operator E.ON UK maintains and operates the coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, NG11 0EE. Powergen changed to E.ON UK on July 5th 2004 when it was bought by the German parent company E.ON.

Commissioned in 1968 by the Central Electricity Generating Board, the station has a capacity of 2034 MW. It has four coal-fired boilers by Babcock and Wilcox that are used to drive Rolls-Royce steam turbines and generator sets.

Cooling water is taken from the nearby River Trent - about 48 million cubic metres a year - and evaporative losses through the eight cooling towers account for some 11 million cubic metres of that water.

E.ON UK has its UK Power Technology centre at the site, where the latest research and development on power generation takes place.

The power station has been photographed for artistic purposes.