- Keadby Power Station
Keadby Power Station is a 720MWe gas-fired power station near
Scunthorpe inNorth Lincolnshire . It lies [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/122167 near] the B1392 and theRiver Trent , and the Scunthorpe-Grimsby railway. Also nearby is theStainforth and Keadby Canal , which is part of theSheffield 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 andNORWEB when the site was inSouth 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 byScottish 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 turbine s each rated at 250MWe. The total thermal input is 1329MW. Each gas turbine is connected to aheat recovery steam generator which connect to onesteam 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 theNational 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]
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