EDF closes down Nottinghamshire’s Cottam coal plant

The 2GW facility originally went into operation in 1968 and has has produced nearly 500TW hours of electricity over its lifetime

Nottinghamshire coal-fired power station to close

The Cottam plant is set to cease production on 30th September 2019

Bad knee holds out for bonus gas station on Day Six

Geoff Curran writes… Day six started with us saying goodbye to our lovely hosts, Jan and Barry who also very kindly donated to the cause (and if you haven’t, please go to our Justgiving page) and then it was off to see Cottam power station. Now I knew it wouldn’t be too far as this […]

Electricity chief defends UK air polluters

David Porter, the chief executive of the Association of Electricity Producers (AEP) has defended UK power stations, after an EU report released today lumped several of them in with a group of air polluters that together cost EU citizens billions of euros. Among the UK power stations featured on the European Environment Agency’s list of […]