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(asked on 18th May 2016) - View Source

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.


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Andrea Leadsom
This question was answered on 25th May 2016

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.

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