Corby Power Station

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Corby Power Station is a 350 MWe gas-fired power station on Mitchell Road off Phoenix Parkway (A6116) in the north-east of Corby in Northamptonshire. It is near (to the west of) the Rockingham racetrack.

[edit] History

The station was originally owned by East Midlands Electricity, with smaller shares owned by Hawker Siddeley and ESB International (the Republic of Ireland's national electricity company), under the name Corby Power Ltd. It was constructed by Hawker Siddeley Power Engineering, Ewbank Preece (became part of Mott MacDonald in 1994), B & V, and Kier. It opened in February 1994.

In September 2000, East Midlands Electricity (owned by the American Dominion Resources) sold off its 80% stake of the power station to Powergen. ESB owned the other 20%. Powergen became E.ON UK in 2004. In October 2000, the ownership changed to 50% Powergen and 50% ESB International.

[edit] Specification

The power station is of the CCGT type. It has two 119 MWe General Electric Frame 9 (9001E) gas turbines produced by EGT, each with a Babcock Energy heat recovery steam generator. These lead on to one 114 MWe steam turbine. The generators were built by Brush.