Location East of England, Essex Operator(s) Coryton Energy Ltd Combined cycle? yes Units operational 2 | Commission date 2002 Primary fuel natural gas Owner Intergen Services, Inc. | |
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Country England, United Kingdom | ||
Coryton Power Station is a 732 MW gas-fired power station named after the nearby Petroplus Coryton Refinery in Thurrock.
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HistoryEdit
The site which is in Coryton Essex United Kingdom is run by Coryton Energy Ltd. It opened in 2002 and was built by Bechtel, is owned by Intergen, based in Burlington, Essex. MA USA, and cost £470 million.
SpecificationEdit
It is a CCGT type power station that uses natural gas. It has two ABB Alstom GT26 gas turbines from which the exhaust gas leads to two heat recovery steam generators. These power one steam turbine. The station connects to the National Grid at the nearby 400 kV Coryton South substation.
The boiler design is a villager type. Optimised running in marginal markets is not possible due to these weaknesses.
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