Jersey Electricity Company

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Jersey Electricity plc
Type Public limited company
Industry Energy
Founded April 1924[1]
Headquarters Jersey
Key people Geoffrey Grime, Chairman
Website www.jec.co.uk

The Jersey Electricity Company or Jersey Electricity (informally JEC or JE) is a public limited company, and the sole provider for electricity in Jersey. The JEC currently has two sites around the Island, Queens Road, St Helier, the site of 2 gas turbines and La Collette Power Station where there are 4 Sulzer Diesels, 1 Rolls Royce Olympus, and 3 Parsons steam turbines.

History

The JEC was originally based at Queens Road, it was then moved to La Collette in 1965. The building at Queens Road was converted into offices, and a small shopping centre known as The Powerhouse Retail Park. Some power generating capacity remains at Queens Road in the shape of 2 gas turbines.

In 2012 the 2 older less efficient Mirlees diesels were removed and replaced with Sulzer diesels, in total there are now a total of 4 Sulzer diesles at La Collette

Group

The JEC group includes many varied businesses including JE Building Services, Jendev, Channel Islands Electricity Grid (CIEG) a joint-venture, Jersey Energy, Foreshore, Jersey Deep Freeze Ltd, Jersey Electricity Retail, Phone Factory, Beyond Computers, Imagination.

See also

La Collette Power Station

References

  1. "Our history | Jersey Electricity". Jec.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-16. 

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