Two Large U.K. Power Plants to Shut in 2013

GALWAY, IRELAND--September 21, 2012 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Two of the U.K.'s oldest power plants will be shut down by March 2013 in order to comply with strict European emissions laws.

RWE npower, the U.K. subsidiary of German energy major RWE AG (OTC:RWEOY) (Essen, Germany), is to shut the 2,000-megawatt (MW) coal-fired Didcot A Power Station in Oxfordshire and the 1,000MW oil-fired Fawley Power Station in Hampshire.