Medway Power Station

Medway Power Station is a 735 megawatts gas-fired power station^[1] on the Isle of Grain in Medway next to the River Medway.

History

The station is run by Scottish & Southern Energy under the name Medway Power Ltd. It was built by Marubeni (Japanese), Tarmac and Kansas City-based Black & Veatch. It was commissioned in 1995, being originally owned (25%) by Arlington, Virginia-based AES Corporation (trading as AES Electric) and the RECs SEEBOARD (37.5%) and Southern Electric (became SSE in 1998). In June 2002, American Electric Power (AEP) sold its SEEBOARD company to eDF, giving eDF 37.5% of the power station. SSE bought the plant from AES and eDF Energy for £242m on 3 October 2003. It is near (west of) to the Grain Power Station and next to the Thamesport.

Specification

It is a CCGT-type power station that runs on natural gas. It has two General Electric Frame 9 (9001F) gas turbines.^[2] The exhaust gas from these reaches two Nooter Eriksen heat recovery steam generators.^[3] The steam from these powers one General Electric steam turbine. During a major upgrade project in 2012 the power station benefitted from the GE DLN 2.6 install as well as an upgrade to the excitation and turbine control system. Currently the power station operates as a two-shifting plant with approximately 20MW of black start capacity.

See also

• Seabank Power Station

References

1. ↑ . Geograph.org.uk (2008-01-04). Retrieved on 2013-07-31.
2. ↑ Products & Services. Gepower.com. Retrieved on 2012-05-15.
3. ↑ http://www.ne.com

External links

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• Other CCGTs in southern England

Electricity generation in South East England
Power stations	Biomass Active Slough Closed Didcot A (co-fired) Kingsnorth (co-fired) Coal Closed Brighton A + B Cowes Didcot A (co-fired) Earley Eastbourne Broomgrove Kingsnorth (co-fired) Littlebrook A, B + C Northfleet Osney Richborough Slough Gas Active Cowes Damhead Creek Didcot B Grain Humbly Grove Hythe Marchwood Medway Sevington Shoreham Storrington Closed Hastings Slough Incinerators/Waste Active Allington Quarry Chineham Isle of Wight Marchwood Newhaven Portsmouth Slough Nuclear Active Dungeness B Closed Dungeness A Refused/Cancelled Dungeness C Oil Closed Kingsnorth (co-fired) Fawley Grain Littlebrook A, B + C, D Marchwood Northfleet Richborough Solar Active Brighton Energy Co-operative Westmill Solar Co-operative Wind Active Green Park Gunfleet Sands Kentish Flats London Array Romney Marsh Thanet Westmill Wind Co-operative Proposed/Future Navitus Bay Rampion
Organisations	Brighton Electric Light Company Centrica Expro International Group Hammond Electric Light Company UK Power Networks Pre-nationalisation electric power companies SEEBOARD Southern Electric

Coordinates: 51°26′N 0°41′E / 51.44°N 0.69°E / 51.44; 0.69