The 50-metre-high steel boiler walls in the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station are accustomed to temperatures of 1,000 degrees centigrade as pulverised coal is pumped in from 36 burners.
“It’s a fireball in here when it’s running,” said plant manager Peter O’Grady, standing inside the 30-metre-long cavern of the plant in the East Midlands.
But today the walls are cold. The plant is past its heyday, running less of the time as it is squeezed out by gas-fired power stations, and wind and solar panels as the UK pushes to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions.
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