Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station

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Energy company E.ON UK maintains and operates the coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England. 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 C.A.Parsons 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 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 by a prominent British-American photographer Michael Kenna.

On 2007-04-10 11 environmental activists from a group called Eastside Climate Action were arrested after they entered the power station and climbed onto equipment in order to draw attention to the energy industry's CO₂ emissions.^[1]^[2]

Ratcliffe power station is compliant with the Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD)^[3], an EU directive that aims to reduce acidification, ground level ozone and particulates by controlling the emissions of sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and dust from large combustion plant. Compliance at this site has been achieved through fitting Flue Gas Desulphurisation^[4], and Boosted Over Fire Air^[5].