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39 relations: Act of Parliament, Alfred McAlpine, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station, Cirque, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, Croesor Quarry, Direct current, Engie Energy International, Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog Railway, Francis turbine, Gas engine, Gwynedd, Hot-bulb engine, Lands Tribunal (England, Wales and Northern Ireland), List of energy storage projects, List of power stations in Wales, Mitsui & Co., Moelwyn Mawr, Moelwyn Slate Quarry, Nobel Enterprises, Ordnance datum, Penrhyndeudraeth, Pumped-storage hydroelectricity, Reservoir, Rhododendron, Royal Academy of Arts, Scots pine, Spiral (railway), Tanygrisiau, Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, Turbine, United Kingdom, Votty & Bowydd Quarry, Wales, Watt, Willow, World War II.
Act of Parliament
Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).
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Alfred McAlpine
Alfred McAlpine plc was a British construction firm headquartered in Hooton, Cheshire.
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Blaenau Ffestiniog
Blaenau Ffestiniog is a historic mining town in Wales.
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Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station
Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station serves the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, and is the passenger terminus of the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction.
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Cirque
Two cirques with semi-permanent snowpatches near Abisko National Park, Sweden A cirque (French, from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion.
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Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) was an executive non-departmental public body of the UK government, established in 1999.
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Croesor Quarry
Croesor Quarry is a large underground slate mine in north Wales which was served by Croesor Tramway.
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Direct current
Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.
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Engie Energy International
Engie Energy International, formerly International Power, is a multinational electricity generation company headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of the French company Engie (formerly GDF Suez).
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Ffestiniog
Ffestiniog is a community in Gwynedd in Wales, containing several villages, in particular the settlements of Llan Ffestiniog and Blaenau Ffestiniog.
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Ffestiniog Railway
The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales.
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Francis turbine
The Francis turbine is a type of water turbine that was developed by James B. Francis in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Gas engine
A gas engine is an internal combustion engine which runs on a gas fuel, such as coal gas, producer gas, biogas, landfill gas or natural gas.
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Gwynedd
Gwynedd is a county in Wales, sharing borders with Powys, Conwy, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi.
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Hot-bulb engine
The hot-bulb engine is a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignites by coming in contact with a red-hot metal surface inside a bulb, followed by the introduction of air (oxygen) compressed into the hot-bulb chamber by the rising piston.
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Lands Tribunal (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
The Lands Tribunal was a tribunal in the United Kingdom created by the Lands Tribunal Act 1949 that had jurisdiction in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, although in the Northern Ireland context the term Lands Tribunal normally refers to a different body, the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland.
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List of energy storage projects
This is a list of energy storage projects worldwide, other than pumped hydro storage.
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List of power stations in Wales
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in Wales, sorted by type and name, with installed capacity (May 2007).
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Mitsui & Co.
is one of the largest sogo shosha (general trading companies) in Japan, and also part of the Mitsui Group.
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Moelwyn Mawr
Moelwyn Mawr is a mountain in Snowdonia, North Wales and forms part of the Moelwynion.
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Moelwyn Slate Quarry
Moelwyn Slate Quarry is a defunct slate quarry located to the south of the village of Tanygrisiau, north Wales.
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Nobel Enterprises
Nobel Enterprises (phonetic) is a chemicals business that used to be based at Ardeer, in the Ayrshire town of Stevenston, in Scotland.
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Ordnance datum
In the British Isles, an ordnance datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps.
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Penrhyndeudraeth
Penrhyndeudraeth ("peninsula with two beaches") is a small town in the Welsh county of Gwynedd.
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Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH), or pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES), is a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing.
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Reservoir
A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.
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Rhododendron
Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.
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Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.
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Scots pine
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) is a species of pine that is native to Eurasia, ranging from Western Europe to Eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains and Anatolia, and north to well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia.
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Spiral (railway)
A spiral (sometimes called a spiral loop or just loop) is a technique employed by railways to ascend steep hills.
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Tanygrisiau
Tanygrisiau is a village and area within Blaenau Ffestiniog in the upper end of the Vale of Ffestiniog in the county of Gwynedd, north-west Wales.
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Trawsfynydd nuclear power station
Trawsfynydd nuclear power station is a former Magnox power station situated in Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, Wales.
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Turbine
A turbine (from the Latin turbo, a vortex, related to the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, meaning "turbulence") is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Votty & Bowydd Quarry
Votty & Bowydd Quarry (sometimes historically known as Lord Quarry) is a major slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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Willow
Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffestiniog_Power_Station
