The Keadby 2 gas power station in Lincolnshire, UK david soulsby/Alamy
Climb the stairs to the roof of the cooling tower at Keadby 2, a new gas power plant in the east of England, and you are rewarded with a story of the UK’s energy past, present and possible future.
Straight ahead is a mound built from the ash of a coal plant that closed in 1984, a fuel the UK has now almost entirely ditched. Behind stands an array of 34 fast-spinning turbines, England’s biggest onshore wind farm. Off the…
