Jersey Electricity Company

The Jersey Electricity Company or Jersey Electricity (informally JEC or JE) is a public limited company, and the sole provider for electricity in Jersey. The JEC has two sites around the island, Queens Road, St Helier, the site of 2 Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbines and La Collette Power Station where there are 4 Sulzer Diesels, 1 Rolls Royce Olympus, and 3 Parsons steam turbines.

Jersey Electricity plc
Public limited company
IndustryEnergy
FoundedApril 1924[1]
HeadquartersJersey
Key people
Geoffrey Grime, Chairman, Chris Ambler, CEO
Websitewww.jec.co.uk

History

The Jersey Electricity Company Limited was founded on 5 April 1924 to  provide an electric lighting scheme for St. Helier.[2] This concession was granted by the St. Helier Parish Authorities. A generating station was built on Albert Pier and first supplied electricity on 27 July 1925.[3] By 1930 there were nearly 2,000 customers and a new power station was opened at Queen’s Road in May 1934 which operated together with the original power station.[3] The electricity supply concession was extended to the whole of the Island in 1937.[2]

By the mid-1950s the generating capacity was 26.470 MW.[2] The generating plant comprised a range of oil-fired engines: four 1,980 kW Mirrlees; three 1,800 kW Mirrlees; two 1,150 kW Fraser and Chalmers; one 3,300 kW Harland and Wolff; two 2,400 kW Harland and Wolff; two 1,000 kW General Motors; and one 750 kW General Motors engine. The growth in electricity supply in the mid-1950s is shown in the table.[2]

Jersey electricity supplies, 1953–58
Year Customers Electricity supplied, GWh Revenue from electricity sales
1953 17,335 24.154 £327,914
1954 17,662 27.389 £363,062
1955 18,197 30.737 £384,892
1956 18,771 36,834 £417,651
1957 19,269 42,200 £435,041
1958 19,835 51,956 £502,092

The JEC was originally based at Queens Road, it was then moved to La Collette in 1965. The building at Queens Road was converted into offices, and a small shopping centre known as The Powerhouse Retail Park. Some power generating capacity remains at Queens Road in the shape of two gas turbines.

In 2012 the two older less efficient Mirlees diesel generators were removed and replaced with Sulzer diesel generators. In total there are now a total of four Sulzer diesel generators at La Collette

Group

The JEC group includes many varied businesses including JE Building Services, Jendev, Channel Islands Electricity Grid a joint-venture, Jersey Energy, Foreshore, Jersey Deep Freeze Ltd, Jersey Electricity Retail, Phone Factory, Beyond Computers, Imagination.

Retail

The group also own a retail store, called The Powerhouse. The store sells home appliances, technology products and toys.

In 2014, half of the store was let to Sports Direct

See also

References
  1. "Our history | Jersey Electricity". Jec.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  2. Garrett, Frederick C. (ed) (1959). Garcke's Manual of Electricity Supply vol.56. London: Electrical Press. pp. C-53-54.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  3. "Jersey Electricity, About Us, Our History". Jersey Electricity. Retrieved 24 April 2020.



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