From coal power station to battery storage

Tilbury A and B were twin coal-burning power stations in Essex, built next to the river Thames so that coal could be brought in by barge. For decades they served electricity to nearby London, before they were decommisioned. There was a brief attempt to convert one of them to run on biomass, an aborted ‘clean coal’ proposal, and then they were demolished in 2017.

The plants have gone, along with the rest of the UK’s coal power, but something useful was left behind on site. All power stati...