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.
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)