Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is the name of a 1989MW coal fired electricity generating power station located in Cuerdley, Widnes, England. The station is owned and operated by Scottish and Southern Energy plc. Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open-pit mining (surface mining). ... Electricity generation is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers. ... Oil power plant in Iraq A power station or power plant is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... Scottish & Southern Energy plc (SSE) is an energy company formed in 1998 following a merger of equals between Scottish Hydro-Electric plc and Southern Electric plc. ...

It has eight cooling towers and takes its water requirements from the River Mersey alongside. Since the deep mines in the Lancashire coalfield closed, all its coal is either imported, or supplied from mines in Yorkshire. One of its cooling towers collapsed on Friday 13 January 1984, due to the freak high winds of that winter, but has since been rebuilt. Image 1: Natural draft wet cooling towers at Didcot Power Station, UK Cooling towers are evaporative coolers used for cooling water or other working medium to near the ambient wet-bulb air temperature. ... Ferry across the Mersey, June 2005 The River Mersey is a river in north-western England. ...

The station was buit by the CEGB but was transferred to Powergen PLC after privatisation. The station, along with Ferrybridge Power Station, a 1995MW coal-fired station in Yorkshire, was then sold to Edison Mission Energy in 1999, sold on to AEP Energy Services Ltd in 2001 and both were sold again in July 2004 to Scottish and Southern Energy for £136m. Powergen was an electric generating company in the United Kingdom. ... Ferrybridge Power Station There have been three Power Stations constructed at Ferrybridge, a small village situated on the River Aire, just off the junction of the A1 and M62 motorway in West Yorkshire. ... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

By 2008, Fiddlers Ferry will be fitted with a FGD (Flue Gas Desulphurisation) plant, significantly reducing the emissions of sulphur oxides, one of the principal causes of acid rain. It also burns biofuels together with the coal. This work will commence 2006 and should be complete by 2007. Imported Coal is supplied largely by train from Liverpool docks. For the chemical element see: sulfur. ... Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ...

It can be spotted from as far away as the Peak District. The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, mainly spanning Derbyshire, but also covering bits of Cheshire, Staffordshire and South and West Yorkshire. ...

See also

• List of tallest buildings and structures in Great Britain