Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine plants have closed in the last two years; and what the (a) generation size and (b) location was of each of those plants.
The following Combined Cycle Gas Turbine plants have closed within the last two years:
Name of Plant | Capacity (MWe) | Location |
Barking | 1,000 | London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, East London |
Roosecote (mothballed in 2012; demolition in 2015) | 229 | Barrow in Furness, Cumbria |
Killingholme (Centrica) | 665 | Killingholme, Humberside |
This excludes combined cycle gas turbine plants which remain available under National Grid’s Supplementary Balancing Reserve and/or plants which have converted to open cycle operation at reduced capacity or have otherwise reduced capacity.