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Written Question
Gas Fired Power Stations
Thursday 30th March 2017

Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which gas-fired power stations have been built since 2010; and what the generation capacity was of each of those stations.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The generation capacity for each combined-cycle gas-fired power plant commissioned since 2010 can be found below.

Plant name

Capacity (MW)

Year of commission

Grain CHP

1365

2010

Langage CCGT

905

2010

Severn Power CCGT

850

2010

Staythorpe CCGT

1792

2010

Blackburn CCGT

59

2011

Pembroke CCGT

2269

2012

West Burton CCGT

1332

2012

Carrington CCGT

880

2016

Source: DUKES 5.10 Power Stations in the United Kingdom, May 2016 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes (Carrington, commissioned in autumn 2016, has also been added)


Written Question
Gas Fired Power Stations
Wednesday 29th March 2017

Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many megawatts of power generation capacity has been provided to the National Grid from gas powered stations in the UK in each year since 2010.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The generation capacity contributed to the National Grid by gas-fired power plant since 2010 can be found below.

Year Transmission entry capacity (MW), gas fired plants

2010 35805

2011 34101

2012 37008

2013 36511

2014 35450

2015 33075

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/540940/DUKES_5.6.xls