Country England Primary fuel Natural gas-fired Phone +44 1724 788200 | Commission date 1952 Tertiary fuel Coal-fired | |
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Location North Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the Humber Operator(s) Scottish and Southern Energy Address Trentside, Keadby, Scunthorpe DN17 3EF, United Kingdom Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hours Similar EPR Glanford, Drax Power Ltd, Centrica Brigg, Crowle, Thorpe Marsh Power St | ||
Keadby Power Station is a 734 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.
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HistoryEdit
Keadby Power Station was built on a former site of a coal-fired power station (which opened on 1 April 1952, but closed in 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 710 MWe of capacity at Keadby, though the investment decision on this project, called 'Keadby 2', will not be made until at least 2016.
In March 2015 the power station was 'deep mothballed' in response to adverse market conditions. The power station is due to reopen in December 2015 after winning a stand-by contract to provide 734 MWe of capacity.
SSE also own a 68 MWe capacity wind farm, Keadby Wind Farm, nearby. This is England's largest onshore wind farm, and started operating in July 2014.
SpecificationEdit
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.