William Cash – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by William Cash on 2016-05-18.
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.
Andrea Leadsom
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.
