Power Station

A dark damp and miserable morning, had a bad night so was up early so instead of just sitting home decided to have a look for a photo ended up over the Uskside area of Newport
The Uskmouth power stations (also known as the Fifoots Point power stations) refers to a series of two coal-fired power stations at the mouth of the River Usk in the south-east of Newport, Wales. The first of the two station, Uskmouth A power station, was built in the 1940s and demolished in 2002.
The second station, Uskmouth B power station, was built in the 1950s and is currently undergoing a conversion to run on biomass and waste plastic.
Uskmouth A power station was authorised in 1947, and building started in April 1948. The first generating set was commissioned in December 1952, followed by other sets in September 1953, March 1954, September 1954, June 1956 and finally December 1956 for a set scrapped in January 1956. It comprised four Fraser and Chalmers / GEC 60 MW hydrogen cooled 11.8 kV turbo-alternators, these were supplied with steam at 62.1 bar and 482 °C.
The 12 Babcock and Wilcox pulverised fuel boilers were capable of delivering 320.0 kg/s of steam.
The generating capacity and output of the station was as follows. [The steam turbine suffered a catastrophic overspeed event in 1958 killing two workers and throwing parts of the turbine into the adjacent river.
The A station was closed on 26 October 1981 with a generating capacity of 228 megawatts. The station was demolished in 2002
Uskmouth B power station (or Uskmouth Power as it is now known) was authorised in May 1957 and built in 1959. It has a generating capacity of 363 MW, which is enough to power 360,000 homes, or the surrounding area of Newport. The electricity is provided by three 110 MW generating sets. ]Uskmouth B was one of the CEGB’s twenty steam power stations with the highest thermal efficiency at the time; in 1963–4 the thermal efficiency was 32.15 per cent, 32.72 per cent in 1964–5, and 32.89 per cent in 1965–6 The pulverised fuel boilers were capable of delivering 324.0 kg/s of steam at 103.4 bar and 538 °C. It is situated in an essential position for the National Grid, as there are very few power stations situated in the south of Wales.