page_title: Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station situated next to the A453 Remembrance Way dual carriageway. Picture taken from the Long Lane road bridge outside of Kegworth, looking northeast.
context_page_description: Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Uniper at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, England. Commissioned in 1968 by the Central Electricity Generating Board, the station has a capacity of 2,000 MW.
context_section_description: The power station occupies a prominent position next to the A453, close to junction 24 of the M1, the River Trent and the Midland Main Line (adjacent to East Midlands Parkway station) and dominates the skyline for many miles around with its eight cooling towers and 199 m (653 ft) tall chimney. It has four coal-fired boilers made by Babcock & Wilcox, each of which drives a 500 megawatt (MW) Parsons generator set. There were four boilers rated at 435 kg/s, steam conditions were 158.58 bar at 566°C, with reheat to 566°C. This gives the station a total generating capacity of 2,116 MW, which is enough electricity to meet the needs of approximately 2.02 million homes. There were 3 × 17.5 MW auxiliary gas turbines on the site, these had been commissioned in December 1966.
  Ratcliffe power station is supplied with coal and other bulk commodities by rail via a branch off the adjacent Midland Main Line (MML). Rail facilities include a north facing junction off the MML slow lines, two tracks of weighbridges and coal discharge hoppers, a flue gas desulfurisation discharge and loading hopper. There was formerly a fly ash bunker and loading point with a south-facing connection to the MML, this was extant in 1990 but had been demolished and disconnected by 2005.
  Uniper has its Technology Centre at the site, where it carries out research and development on power generation.
caption: View from the south west including the A453 (July 2020)
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