A characteristic of any thermal power ... big cooling lake may make more sense. We covered the various ways to cool thermal plants before, including direct intake, spray ponds, cooling towers ...

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station has been generating electricity since 1968 via its four coal-fired boilers, eight vast ...

A landmark coal-fired power station in Cheshire has closed ... Getty Images The station - which has two groups of four cooling towers - opened in 1973 Stephen Wheeler, managing director of SSE ...