Drax Power Station Control Room

The entire system controls roughly 100 000 signals from across the power station s six generating units water cooling air compressors and more.

Drax power station control room. Its name comes from the nearby village of drax it is situated on the river ouse between selby and goole its generating capacity of 3 906 megawatts mw is the highest of any power station in the united. Our weekend tours include a visit to the skylark centre and nature reserve where you can explore local landscape and wildlife. The control room is the nerve centre of drax power station. Iti has a long history with cruachan and the other hydro assets which drax owns and operates in scotland.

Drax supports post covid recovery with new scottish apprentices the budding engineers will join drax at its cruachan pumped storage hydro power station in argyll and bute galloway hydro power scheme lanark hydro power scheme and the daldowie energy from waste plant near glasgow. From here technicians have a view into every stage of the power generation process. Image copyright drax image caption the power station s control room it also plans to close the two remaining coal generating units at its north yorkshire plant by 2025 although the company did. Drax power station is a large biomass and coal fired power station in north yorkshire england capable of co firing petcoke it has a 2 6 gw capacity for biomass and 1 29 gw capacity for coal.

The station s bird s eye view.