powerplant

One of the Italian evergreens we visited this summer - an old hydroelectric power station and the adjacent chemical factory. The history of the site dates back to the early 20th century when the chemical plant, along with a small power station, was put into operation. The location was chosen...

I visited this site on 17 Nov 25 as part of a wider visit to Charleroi. I was quite short of time so I only visited the cooling tower and some of the adjacent ancillaries. Parking was very easy (about 100m up the road) and it was pretty much a walk in with no signs of security. As I was on...

Piombino Steelworks has been producing steel for over 150 years now since 1865. While the site itself is still active, it's on-site power station has been shuttered and replaced with a newer more efficient one nearby. As we all know, Italy is about as laid back as exploring gets with most...

A steelworks was built here as early as 1836. In 1934, the new coking plant, with 50 Koppers ovens, was put into operation. The old one was demolished to make way for it. In 1952, an expansion was necessary, and a second battery with 26 Coppée ovens was built. In 1958, a sinter plant was built...

The Mintia-Deva power plant was Romania's third-largest thermal power plant, with five identical groups of 210 MW each and one of 235 MW, for a total capacity of 1,285 MW. The main fuel was hard coal mixed with natural gas. The power plant's three chimneys are 220 meters high. The plant was shut...

The blast furnace (HF6) was first published in the German version in 1959. The previous year, it took around 50 days, and in 2005, it was the same. It took 10 days, but after 2015, the industrial ruins had to wait. When the former steelworks is ready for use, the power plant will no longer be in...

We were driving along the main road of a small Bulgarian town when we saw a building on the right that looked abandoned. We turned around and took the side street. Since there were a lot of people on the street we had to wait a bit. The small fence was quickly overcome and we went through the...

I'm a little bit late to the party on this one with demolition work having now begun, but I've finally managed to attempt an old school Coal Fired Power Station which I'm well pleased about! Most of the others have been razed to the ground before I've had the chance to even consider trying them...

POWERPLANT T THE HISTORY: As with many European sites, the history is scarce and more limited in availability here than in most UK places, so I’ve gathered what I can! Powerplant T boasted two thermoelectric turbines powered by coal on the site of two other modern power stations. Opened in...

ABERTHAW B POWER STATION THE HISTORY: As with Uskmouth, Aberthaw B was located on the south coast of Wales as a strategic location for the National Grid in order to ensure consistent power to sparsely populated Wales. Burning both coal and biomass, this power station produced 1,560 megawatts...

Note that this is a repost... The Explore I visited the HF6 Powerplant with a friend (non-member). This was our second visit as the first time we tried to get in security, as well as the police, was already on site. When we visited the second time, we did not see a soul, got in without any...

After not being able to find an easy entrance at the front gates of the site and due to some fella in a Mercedes having a kip at the gates i decided to get in via the Mersey. I got onto the banks of the river further down and walked my way up to the power station, clambering over sewage overflow...

Near the town I live in, there is this big Coal/Biomass Powerplant. It started producing power (580MW) in 1982 and closed down in 2015. I visited this huge site in 2017, just before they started demolishing the buildings. This is still not done, but visiting the site now is very hard or...

Brief History A large decommissioned coal fired power station in the North of England which was capable of co-firing biomass, The station had a generating capacity of 1,960 megawatts, enough electricity to power 2 million homes. It began generating power back in 1967 making use of nearby coal...

History: The history of this former steelworks dates all the way back to the middle of the 1800s. At this time a small forge in the Belgium town of La Louviere began expanding its operations. By 1900 over 1200 employees were active on the terrain. When the first world war broke out nearly all of...