{"id":54443,"date":"2026-06-12T14:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/aberthaw-power-station-chimney-demolished-in-controlled-explosion\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:46:27","slug":"aberthaw-power-station-chimney-demolished-in-controlled-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/aberthaw-power-station-chimney-demolished-in-controlled-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberthaw power station chimney demolished in controlled explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">This is the moment a 502ft (152m) chimney stack at the former Aberthaw power station was demolished in a controlled explosion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">The local landmark, which was completed in 1964, has been cleared to make space for a green energy park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Aberthaw, in the Vale of Glamorgan, was Wales&#8217; last coal-fired power station and closed in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">People were able to watch the blast from an official viewing point at Fonmon Castle  on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\"><i id=\"video-edited-by-terel-edmunds\" class=\"TextFragment-styles__TextFragmentStyled-sc-99e7c69b-0 kAUhPg\">Video edited by Terel Edmunds<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c20y53220gwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the moment a 502ft (152m) chimney stack at the former Aberthaw power station was demolished in a controlled explosion. The local landmark, which was completed in 1964, has been cleared to make space for a green energy park. Aberthaw, in the Vale of Glamorgan, was Wales&#8217; last coal-fired power station and closed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[15534,15535,9216,8412,6152,550,424],"class_list":["post-54443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-aberthaw","tag-chimney","tag-controlled","tag-demolished","tag-explosion","tag-power","tag-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54445,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54443\/revisions\/54445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}