Our main chimney is the tallest industrial chimney in the country, and is 15m taller than Canary Wharf.

Upgrading the high pressure and low pressure turbines at Drax will give the station an efficiency approaching 40%.

Each cooling tower is big enough to hold the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral in its base.

What you see coming out of the cooling towers is actually warm clean water vapour, not smoke.

From the generator the electricity goes to a transformer before it is despatched to the National Grid.

The FGD plant at Drax is fitted to all six units, and removes over 90% of the sulphur dioxide (SO₂) from our emissions.

The low pressure turbines are the biggest of all the turbines.

The temperature and pressure of the steam is greatly reduced when it reaches the LP turbine.

The turbine blades are fixed to a shaft that rotates as steam hits the blades.