Didcot power stations

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Didcot power stations are a pair of power stations – Didcot B, which is an active natural gas power plant that supplies the National Grid, Didcot OCGT and the closed Didcot A which was combined coal and oil power plant that opened in 1970 and was demolished between 2014 and 2020. The power station is situated in Sutton Courtenay, near Didcot in Oxfordshire, England. Didcot OCGT is a gas-oil power plant, originally part of Didcot A and now independent. It continues to provide emergency backup power for the National Grid. A large section of the boiler house at Didcot A Power Station collapsed on 23 February 2016 while the building was being prepared for demolition. Four men were killed in the collapse. The combined power stations featured a chimney, demolished in 2020, which was one of the tallest structures in the UK, and could be seen from much of the surrounding landscape, including from The Shard in London. It previously had six hyperboloid cooling towers, with three demolished in 2014...

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