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Energy supplier npower confirmed today two of its power station will shut down in 2013 to fall in line with EU emissions laws. The 2,000MW coal-fired Didcot A power station in Oxfordshire (pictured) and the 1,000MW oil-fired Fawley plant in Hampshire will close at the end of March 2013 under the EU Large Combustion Plant […]

As debate rages around emissions performance standards for fossil fuel power stations, an oil-fired station in Southampton is shifting up a gear to meet demand caused by this week’s snow storms. Because RWE npower’s Fawley operation is oil-fired it can start generating power more quickly than fossil-fuelled facilities. This, claims RWE npower, makes it able […]