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Rugeley power station and surrounding area

The Rugeley power stations were a series of two coal-fired power stations located on the River Trent at Rugeley in Staffordshire. The first power station on the site, Rugeley A power station was opened in 1961, but has since been closed and demolished. Rugeley B power station was commissioned in 1970 and closed on 8th June 2016. The A station had five 120 MW generating sets which gave it a generating capacity of 600 megawatts. The Rugeley B station used two 500 MW generating sets, which could produce 8,760,000 MWh each year. The station usually burned 1.6 million tonnes of coal a year, producing 240,000 tonnes of ash. The station's boilers produced 1,100 tonnes of steam per hour, at a temperature of 568 degrees Celsius. A future use for the site is to be determined, but it will take at least five years to redevelop with demolition and decontamination likely to take three years alone. Work will then get under way to demolish the plant after a nine-month decommissioning period. It is expected to take three years to raze the power station to the ground