History
The power station was built in the 1960s and opened in 1968. In 1981, the station was burning 5.5 million tonnes of coal a year, consuming 65% of the output of the south Nottinghamshire's coal-mines. Emissions of Sulfur dioxide, which cause Acid rain, were greatly reduced in 1993 when a flue gas desulphurisation system using wet limestone-gypsum process, became operational on all of the station's boilers. Emissions of Nitrogen oxide, a greenhouse gas which also causes damage to the ozone layer were reduced in 2004 when new equipment was fitted to Unit 1 by ALSTOM. On 2 April 2009, E.ON UK had announced that it had installed 68 panel solar photovoltaic array at the power station "to help heat and light the admin block, saving an estimated 6.3 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year".
In 2009 East Midlands Trains opened its new East Midlands Parkway railway station in the shadow of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station which has a car park for 850 vehicles.
On 11 February 2009, Unit 1 became the first UK 500 MW coal fired unit to run for 250,000 hours.
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