SAM ROWLANDS, Member of the Welsh Parliament for North Wales, has been seeing first hand how a power station is run in his region.
Mr Rowlands recently visited Connah’s Quay Power Station and was shown around by Ant Landers, Plant Manager, and given a tour of the site.
He said: “I was delighted to have the opportunity to look around this gas fired power station and meet some of the people who work there.
“I often drive past the site and marvel at how impressive it all looks and it was great to be able to see at first hand what actually goes on there.
“It was also good to hear about Uniper’s proposals to develop a new low carbon gas fired power station, with carbon capture technology.”
Connah’s Quay Power Station is owned and operated by Uniper, an international energy company, which operates roughly 22.4 GW of generation capacity in Europe, and has, a flexible generation portfolio of seven power stations and a fast-cycle gas storage facility in the UK. This ranks them among the world’s largest power producers with their speciality being to offer flexible generation which is available when needed.
Uniper are planning to build a new low carbon gas fired power station on their Connah’s Quay site, which will utilise carbon capture technology and be integrated into the new HyNet carbon capture network in the area.
