Drax Modernising U.K.'s Biggest Coal Plant
Posted on March 08, 2013 at 08:22 AM EST
GALWAY, IRELAND--March 8, 2013 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) - Work to modernise and clean up the U.K.'s largest coal-fired plant has progressed with the award of a new contract to upgrade the intermediate pressure (IP) turbines in three of the plant's operating units. Drax Group plc (LSE:DRX) (Selby, England) has awarded the contract for the Drax Power Station to Siemens Energy Service Fossil (Newcastle, England), a subsidiary of German engineering giant Siemens (NYSE:SI) (Munich, Germany).