Tilbury Power Station (Proposed)

Tilbury Power Station (Proposed) was a 1,600 megawatt supercritical coal plant proposed by RWE nPower with a notional commissioning date of 2014. The proposal was shelved in November 2009.

The proposed plant was to be located at the site of the existing Tilbury Power Station in Tilbury, Essex. The existing coal-fired plant had an installed capacity of 1,131 megawatts. After announcing the cancellation of the proposed new supercritical coal plant RWE nPower subsequently decided to convert one of the existing units to a 750 MW biomass plant based on imported wood. The wood fired power station was commissioned in early 2012.

The wood-fired plant was permanently closed on August 13, 2013 after RWE abandoned its proposal to run the plant for another decade on wood. RWE stated that "Tilbury remains an excellent site for power generation and RWE will now review future plans for the site."

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Reports

 * Matthew Lockwood, After the Coal Rush: Assessing policy options for coal-fired electricity generation, Institute for Public Policy Research, July 2008. (Pdf). See also "ippr calls for UK to lead a two year Europe-wide freeze on new coal-fired power stations", Institute for Public Policy Research, Media Release, July 2, 2008.