Keadby Power Station

Keadby Power Station is a 720MWe gas-fired power station near Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. It lies [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/122167 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 April 1 1952, but closed in the early 1970s when nearby Drax opened) being commissioned on January 22 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 £253m It is now owned by Scottish and Southern Energy. In 1999, Scottish Hydro applied to add another 770MW of capacity in a £200m plant at Keadby.

pecification

It is a CCGT type power station running on natural gas. There are two General Electric Frame [http://www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/gas_turbines_cc/en/f_class/ms9001fa.htm 9FA] gas turbines each rated at 250MWe. The total thermal input is 1329MW. Each gas turbine is connected to a heat recovery steam generator which connect to one steam turbine which has an output of 260MWe. Steam is condensed using water from the River Trent. There is a 25MWe 11kV gas turbine available which is used in the situation known as "black start". The station connects to the National Grid at 400kV, being used for baseload.

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.scottish-southern.co.uk/SSEInternet/index.aspx?rightColHeader=22&id=424 Scottish & Southern Energy]