Gas Fired Power Stations

(asked on 23rd March 2017) - View Source

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 Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 30th March 2017

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)

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