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    Longannet power station /lɒŋˈænɪt/ was a large coal-fired power station in Fife, and the last coal-fired power station in Scotland. It was capable of co-firing...
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    Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Uniper at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, England. Commissioned...
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    the large ash lagoons built to deposit spoil from the coal-fired Longannet Power Station near Kincardine. Historic villages line the Fife shoreline; Limekilns...
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    Drax power station is a large biomass power station in Drax, North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing petroleum coke. It has a 2.6 GW capacity for...
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  • There is currently one active coal-fired power station operating in the United Kingdom, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire. It has a total generating...
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    Musselburgh and beyond. The Longannet power station near Kincardine used to source much of its coal from nearby pits but the Longannet coal mine closed after...
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    power station as the UK's least carbon-efficient power station. It is now closed. In 2007, the WWF named ScottishPower's Longannet power station as the...
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    size from 5 MW to 1,500 MW. Scottish Power are spending £400 million installing FGD at Longannet power station, which has a capacity of over 2,000 MW...
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  • 1950s through to 2002, mainly to supply Kincardine Power Station, and later, Longannet Power Station, in Fife. This was a low-quality coal, unsuitable...
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    now a peninsula as the result of the landfill of ash from nearby Longannet power station, was the site of coal mining and major salt works from the 17th...
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