Ferrybridge power stations
The Ferrybridge power stations were a series of three coal-fired power stations on the River Aire near Ferrybridge in West Yorkshire, England, in operation from 1927 to 2016 on a site next to the junction of the M62 and A1(M) motorways.
| Ferrybridge power stations | |
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Ferrybridge C Power Station Viewed from the west in August 2005 | |
| Country | England |
| Location | Knottingley |
| Coordinates | 53.71740°N 1.28058°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | A station: 1926 B station: 1955 C station: 1961 Multifuel 1: 2011 Multifuel 2: 2016 |
| Commission date | A station: 1927 B station: 1957 C station: 1966 Multifuel 1: 2015 Multifuel 2: 2019 |
| Decommission date | A station: 1976 B station: 1992 C station: 2016 |
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| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
| Secondary fuel | Biomass |
| Tertiary fuel | Gas |
| Power generation | |
| Nameplate capacity | A station: 125 MW B station: 300 MW C station: 2,034 MW Multifuel 1: 68 MW |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
The first station, Ferrybridge A, was constructed in the mid-1920s and closed in 1976. Ferrybridge B was brought into operation in the 1950s and closed in the early 1990s. In 1966, Ferrybridge C power station was opened with a generating capacity of 2 GW from four 500 MW sets; constructed by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB); on privatisation in 1989 ownership was passed to Powergen, then to Edison Mission Energy (1999), then to AEP Energy Services (American Electric Power) (2001) and to SSE plc (2004). Ferrybridge C closed in March 2016.
Two of the four units were fitted with flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) plant in 2009. In 2013 SSE indicated that the power station would not comply with the Industrial Emissions Directive, requiring the plant's closure by 2023 or earlier. It was later announced that the plant would be fully closed by March 2016.
Ferrybridge Multifuel 1 is a 68 MW multi-fuel energy-from-waste plant at the site which became operational in 2015. Ferrybridge Multifuel 2 is a 70 MW multi-fuel plant built alongside the MF1 plant, which became operational in 2019.
On 28 July 2019, one of Ferrybridge's cooling towers was demolished, followed by a further four on 13 October. The main boiler house, bunker bay and two chimney stacks were demolished on 22 August 2021. The final three cooling towers were demolished on 17 March 2022.