Keadby Power Station

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Keadby Power Station

Keadby gas-fired power station in 2006
Location of Keadby Power Station
Country England
Location North Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Coordinates 53°35′40″N 0°45′02″W / 53.594444°N 0.750442°W / 53.594444; -0.750442Coordinates: 53°35′40″N 0°45′02″W / 53.594444°N 0.750442°W / 53.594444; -0.750442
Commission date 1952
Operator(s) Scottish and Southern Energy
Power station
Primary fuel Natural gas-fired
Secondary fuel Coal-fired
grid reference SE828116

Keadby Power Station is a 720 MWe gas-fired power station near Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. It lies near the B1392 and the River Trent, and the Scunthorpe-Grimsby railway. Also nearby is the Stainforth and Keadby Canal, which is part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.

History

Keadby Power Station was built on a former site of a coal-fired power station (which opened on 1 April 1952, but closed in the 1984). being commissioned on 22 January 1996, and was opened by Scottish Hydro Electric and NORWEB when the site was in South Humberside. Scottish Hydro bought the 50% share of Keadby Generation Ltd, then owned by United Utilities in March 1997 for £253 million. It is now owned by Scottish and Southern Energy. In 1999, Scottish Hydro applied to add another 770 MW of capacity in a £200 million plant at Keadby.

Specification

It is a CCGT type power station running on natural gas. There are two General Electric Frame 9FA gas turbines each rated at 250 MWe. The total thermal input is 1329 MW. Each gas turbine is connected to a heat recovery steam generator which connect to one steam turbine which has an output of 260 MWe. Steam is condensed using water from the River Trent. There is a 25 MWe 11 kV gas turbine available for black starts when there is no power to start producing electricity. The station connects to the National Grid at 400 kV, being used for baseload.

See also

  • Keadby Generation Ltd - the company owned by Scottish & Southern Energy that runs Ferrybridge and Fiddlers Ferry power stations.

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