Uskmouth power stations

Uskmouth power stations
Uskmouth B Power Station Viewed from the south east, September 2007
Country	Wales, United Kingdom
Location	Newport
Coordinates	51°32′57″N 2°58′14″W / 51.549071°N 2.970539°W / 51.549071; -2.970539
Status	A station: Demolished B station: Operational
Construction began	A station: 1948 B station: 1957
Commission date	A station: 1952 B station: 1959
Decommission date	A station: 1981
Operator(s)	British Electricity Authority (1952–1955) Central Electricity Authority (1955–1958) Central Electricity Generating Board (1958–1990) National Power (1990–1998) AES (1998–2003) Welsh Power (2004–2009) Scottish and Southern Energy (2009–2015) SIMEC Group (2015–present)
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Coal
Tertiary fuel	Biomass
Chimneys	A station: 2 B station: 1
Cooling towers	None
Cooling source	Sea water
Power generation
Units operational	A station: 4 × 60 MW B station: 3 × 110 MW
Nameplate capacity	A station: 228 MW B station: 363 MW
External links
Website	www.sse.com/SSEInternet/index.aspx?rightColHeader=22&id=21202
Commons	Related media on Commons
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The Uskmouth power stations (also known as the Fifoots Point power stations) refers to a series of two coal-fired power stations at the mouth of the River Usk in the south-east of Newport, Wales. The first of the two station, Uskmouth A power station, was built in the 1940s and demolished in 2002.

The second station, Uskmouth B power station, was built in the 1950s and as of 2023 has been decommissioned and mothballed.^[1][2]