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Didcot powerstation

Kelly Marie Angel
I saw on the news earlier that this morning they blew up the last of Didcots cooling towers  the demolition went ok but the dust cloud caused a flashover in the substation that is still used to supply parts or maybe a

all of Oxfordshire  I bet the grid engineers were tearing there hair out after last weeks events
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    Kelly Marie:

    Hi Roy it's a shame these old power stations are going I'm sure its a decision that will come back to bite the government on the bum. I was never fortunate enough to work in a station like that or even to work for a DNO but I have been lucky enough to visit both Didcot station and also to have a look round Portsmouth just after it had closed thinking back it's amazing the difference between the 2 stations. Finally I saw the video of the demolition on TV again and it looks like the flashover was on some 33/66 Kv lines so not directly a grid fault even so I hate to think what the fault MVA would of been




    I heard Jeremy Corbyn recently waxing lyrical about the coal industry and his thoughts on its re-establishment.  Albeit, could have been a facebook broadcast as I remember .


    Legh

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    Kelly Marie:

    Hi Roy it's a shame these old power stations are going I'm sure its a decision that will come back to bite the government on the bum. I was never fortunate enough to work in a station like that or even to work for a DNO but I have been lucky enough to visit both Didcot station and also to have a look round Portsmouth just after it had closed thinking back it's amazing the difference between the 2 stations. Finally I saw the video of the demolition on TV again and it looks like the flashover was on some 33/66 Kv lines so not directly a grid fault even so I hate to think what the fault MVA would of been




    I heard Jeremy Corbyn recently waxing lyrical about the coal industry and his thoughts on its re-establishment.  Albeit, could have been a facebook broadcast as I remember .


    Legh

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