Country Wales, United Kingdom Status Operational Make and model General Electric Address Deeside CH5 2LF, UK Decommission date June 2012 | Location Flintshire Units operational 2 x 75 MW
1 x 60 MW Nameplate capacity 210 MW Owner Engie Primary fuel Natural gas | |
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Shotton Combined Heat and Power Station is a 210 MWe gas-fired CHP power station in Flintshire, Wales.
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It is located on Weighbridge Road in Deeside, near the A548 in Shotton, Flintshire.
HistoryEdit
The power station opened in 2001 as Shotton CHP Ltd, when owned by TXU Europe. The plant is near the site of UPM's Shotton paper mill. It is near steelworks owned by Corus Group. In December 2002, TXU had financial problems when the price of electricity plummeted. The plant went into administration. In January 2003, the administrators, Pricewaterhousecoopers, successfully restarted the power plant. It was the first time a power station had been commercially running whilst in receivership. In October 2003, the plant was bought by Gaz de France (GdF), being their only power station in the UK until the company bought the Teesside power station in February 2008. Late 2008 Gaz de France merged with Suez (a major global utility company) to form GDF Suez.
The site is next door to the Deeside Power Station, north of the River Dee. International Power decided to close the plant in June 2012, as the commissioning of a number of highly efficient gas-fired power stations in the UK, the relatively low efficiency of Shotton CHP and the worst position of gas in UK's merit order over the previous years made the plant uncompetitive.
SpecificationEdit
It was a CCGT-type power station that runs on natural gas. The plant had two 75 MWe General Electric 6FA gas turbines from which the exhaust gas heats two heat recovery steam generators. The steam from these power one steam turbine.