Keadby Power Station

Keadby Power Station
Keadby gas-fired power station in 2006
Country England
Location North Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Coordinates 53°35′40″N 0°45′02″W / 53.594444°N 0.750442°W / 53.594444; -0.750442Coordinates: 53°35′40″N 0°45′02″W / 53.594444°N 0.750442°W / 53.594444; -0.750442
Commission date 1952
Operator(s) Scottish and Southern Energy
Thermal power station
Primary fuel Natural gas
Tertiary fuel Coal
grid reference SE828116

Keadby Power Station is a 734 MWe gas-fired power station near Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. It lies 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 the site of a former coal-fired power station (which opened on 1 April 1952, but closed in 1984). It was commissioned on 22 January 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 £253 million. It is now owned by Scottish and Southern Energy.

In 1999, Scottish Hydro applied to add another 710 MWe of capacity at Keadby, and a variation to this consent was granted in November 2016. The project, called 'Keadby 2', was announced in May 2018.[1]

In March 2013 the power station was 'deep mothballed' in response to adverse market conditions; it reopened in December 2015 after winning a stand-by contract to provide 734 MWe of capacity.[2][3][4]

SSE also owns a 68 MWe capacity wind farm, Keadby Wind Farm, nearby. This is England's largest onshore wind farm, and started operating in July 2014.[5][6]

Specification

It is a CCGT type power station running on natural gas. There are two General Electric Frame 9FA gas turbines each rated at 250 MWe. The total thermal input is 1329 MW. Each gas turbine is connected to a heat recovery steam generator which connect to one steam turbine which has an output of 260 MWe. Steam is condensed using water from the River Trent. There is a 25 MWe 11 kV gas turbine available for black starts when there is no power to start producing electricity. The station connects to the National Grid at 400 kV, being used for baseload.

See also

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

References

  1. ↑ "On 25 May 2018, SSE announced its decision to proceed with the construction of a new 840MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power station at Keadby 2". SSE. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "SSE Announces Reopening of Keadby Gas Fired Power Station". SSE. 20 Oct 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "SSE cranks up mothballed Keadby gas-fired power station as winter back-up for UK renewable energy". Scottish Energy News. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "Keadby Power Station". SSE. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "SSE hungry for more at Keadby". reNEWS. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "SSE Renewables, the renewable energy development division of SSE, acquired the Keadby wind farm project in North Lincolnshire in May 2011". SSE. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
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