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Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a coal fired power station located in Cuerdley, Cheshire, in North West England, which is capable of co-firing biomass. It is situated on the north bank of the River Mersey between the towns of Widnes and Warrington. Opened in 1971, the station has a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts (MW). In a bid to combine efforts at the design and construction stages the Boiler and Turbo-generator plant were replicated at West Burton power station located between Retford and Gainsborough in North Nottinghamshire. 〔 〕 Since the privatisation of the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1990, the station has been operated by various companies. Since 2004, Scottish and Southern Energy plc have operated the station. With its eight high cooling towers and high chimney〔 the station is a prominent landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines. ==History== Fiddlers Ferry power station was built by the Cleveland Bridge Company and came into full operation in 1973.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Newcastle University )〕 One of the station's cooling towers collapsed in high winds on 13 January 1984. It has since been rebuilt. The station was built by the CEGB but was transferred to Powergen PLC after privatisation of the UK's electricity industry in 1990. Fiddlers Ferry, along with Ferrybridge Power Station in Yorkshire, was then sold to Edison Mission Energy in 1999. They were then sold on to AEP Energy Services Ltd in 2001, and both were sold again in July 2004 to Scottish and Southern Energy for £136 million. When it was built, the station mainly burned coal mined in the South Yorkshire Coalfield and transported across the Pennines on the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway. Today, all coal for the station is imported. The coal is imported by large bulk carriers via the nearby Liverpool Docks and was until May 2015 also via Ellesmere Port via coastal ships. Biomass is also imported via Liverpool Docks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fiddlers Ferry power station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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