Official name Langage Power Station Commission date 2010 Primary fuel Natural gas-fired | Country England Operator(s) Centrica Opened March 2010 | |
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Location Devon, South West England Address Holland Rd, Plymouth PL7 5AW, UK Similar Seabank Power Station, Newton Abbot power sta, Peterborough Power Station, Damhead Creek power sta, Poole Power Station | ||
Langage power station s second turbine fired up
Langage Power Station is a combined-cycle power plant near the city of Plymouth in Devon, England.
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Centrica, owners of the site, announced on 16 June 2006 that the natural gas fired power station was to be constructed on their behalf by Alstom. Section 36 consent was granted in 2000 and Reserved Matters were approved in 2005. The 885 MW plant was expected to cost £400 million and to start generating in early 2009, but problems with internal pipework pushed this back. The power station was completed and operations started in March 2010.
Langage was set to be the first fossil fuel power station built in the UK since 2005, but due to delays it was preceded by Marchwood Power Station, which was commissioned in 2009. Multiple other CCGT stations were also commissioned around this time, including Pembroke Power Station and the West Burton Power Station CCGT extension. The station was commissioned against an expected 'energy gap' in UK generating capacity, caused by the expected closure of nuclear and older coal-fired stations.
The power station had permission to build three gas-powered turbines when it bought the site in 2004, but due to land constraints they were only able to build two.
The plant uses two Alstom GT26 gas turbines, each driving an air-cooled turbogenerator, with a heat recovery steam generator powering a single STF30C steam turbine which also drives another air-cooled turbogenerator.
Centrica put the plant up for sale in May 2014, stating an aim to invest in smaller, more flexible power stations.