Brimsdown Power Station

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Coordinates: 51.660484° N 0.0218° W

Brimsdown Power Station
Brimsdown Power Station 1974, showing part of the coal handling plant and 3 of the 7 cooling towers
Brimsdown Power Station shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ368976
Operator:	Central Electricity Generating Board
Fuel:	Coal-fired
Commissioned:	1907
Decommissioned:	1974

Brimsdown Power Station was a coal-fired power station on the Lee Navigation at Brimsdown in Enfield, north London.

The first station was opened by the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co. in 1907, primarily to supply the tramways. The station was extended between 1924 and 1955, supplying power to a wide area of Enfield and Essex.^[1]

Coal was supplied by barge and rail. The station had seven cooling towers visible from a wide area. It was run by the nationalised CEGB in its later years, closing in the early 1970s.

A 392MW gas-fired CCGT station was opened on a part of the original site in 1999. Known as Enfield Power Station (originally Enfield Energy Centre) rather than Brimsdown, this has been operated by E.ON since 2005.

[edit] References

1. ^ 'Enfield: Public services', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 243-245. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=26956. Date accessed: 23 November 2007.