Uniper is planning to close one of the four 500-megawatt units of the Ratcliffe hard coal-fired power plant as early as the end of September 2022 — two years ahead of schedule.
Ratcliffe Power Station has supplied around 4 percent of all electricity for the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, according to Uniper. The facility consists of four coal-fired units with a capacity of 500 megawatts each and a total capacity of 2,000 megawatts. At full capacity, Ratcliffe can generate electricity for around 2 million homes.
“We have the ambitious goal of making the entire Uniper power plant portfolio in Europe CO2-neutral by 2035,” said Klaus Dieter Maubach, CEO of Uniper. “To achieve this, we must seize every opportunity that comes our way. In the case of Ratcliffe, we want to take one unit off the grid more quickly.”
Uniper said power generation in the remaining three units of the two-gigawatt power plant is scheduled to end completely by the end of Septe