Thorpe Marsh Power Station
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Country | England |
Location | South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber |
Coordinates | 53°34′50″N 1°05′07″W / 53.580602°N 1.08534°WCoordinates: 53°34′50″N 1°05′07″W / 53.580602°N 1.08534°W |
Construction began | 1959 |
Commission date | 1963[1] |
Decommission date | 1994 |
Operator(s) | Central Electricity Generating Board |
Thermal power station | |
Primary fuel | Coal |
Tertiary fuel | Heavy Fuel Oil |
Power generation | |
Nameplate capacity | 1,100 MW |
External links | |
Commons | Related media on Commons |
grid reference SE605097 |
Thorpe Marsh Power Station was a 1 GW coal-fired power station near Barnby Dun in South Yorkshire, England. The station was commissioned in 1963 and closed in 1994.[2] In 2011, permission was given for the construction of a gas-fired power station on the site.
History[]
Construction and operation, (1959–1994)[]
Construction of the station began in 1959;[3] it was built as a prototype for all the large modern power stations in the UK. It was commissioned between 1963 and 1965.[4] Thorpe Marsh was one of the CEGB’s twenty steam power stations with the highest thermal efficiency; in 1963–4 the thermal efficiency was 31.50 per cent, 32.76 per cent in 1964–5, and 33.09 per cent in 1965–6.[5]
There were 2 × 28 MW auxiliary gas turbines on the site, these had been commissioned in December 1966.[6]
The plant was officially opened in 1967.[7]
The station contained two 550 MW generating units with cross compound turbines, supplied from a single boiler. Steam was supplied at 2,300 pounds per square inch (16,000 kPa) at 1,050 °F (566 °C).[8]
The annual electricity output of Thorpe Marsh was:[5]
Year | 1963–4 | 1964–5 | 1965–6 | 1966–7 | 1971–2 | 1978–9 | 1981–2 |
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Electricity supplied, GWh | 581 | 1,697 | 1,803 | 2,804 | 3,660 | 3,750 | 4,296 |
On 7 January 1973, four workmen died. A coroner's report gave a verdict of accidental death; subsequently the Factory Inspectorate began legal proceedings against the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) for breaches in safety provisions.[9]
After the privatisation of the CEGB in 1990, the station was operated by National Power. The station subsequently closed in 1994.[4][10]
Post closure (1994–)[]
The 45 acres (18 ha) site was acquired by Able UK in 1995.[11]
During the 2007 United Kingdom floods, the 400 kV substation at the site was temporarily shut down on 27 June, whilst the 275 kV substation was not affected; operational service was fully restored by early 28 June.[12]
In October 2011, the Department of Energy and Climate Change approved the construction of a 1,500 MW combined cycle gas turbine power station at Thorpe Marsh by Thorpe Marsh Power Limited (parent Acorn Power Developments, see Acorn Energy) with an estimated cost of £984 million.[13][14][15] Thorpe Marsh Power Limited proposed an initial capacity of 960 MW.[15] The proposed development would also require the construction of an 11-mile (18 km) gas pipeline from Camblesforth;[16] Thorpe Marsh Power Limited is expected to submit an application for the gas pipeline in late 2014.[16]
Able UK demolished the original power station's cooling towers in 2012.[17]
References[]
- ^ "Nostalgia on Tuesday: Towering presence". The Yorkshire Post. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Thorpe Marsh CCGT Power Station - Environment Statement" (PDF). September 2010. p. 203. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Barnby Dun Village History". Barnby Dun Community Association. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ a b "Generation disconnections since 1991". National Grid. 2003. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2009.
- ^ a b CEGB (1966). CEGB Statistical Yearbooks 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1982. London: CEGB. pp. 26, 26, 20.
- ^ The Electricity Council (1990). Handbook of Electricity Supply Statistics. London: The Electricity Council. p. 8. ISBN 085188122X.
- ^ "Site-Assembled Transformer". Engineering. London: Centaur Media. 203: 775. 1967. ISSN 0013-7758.
- ^ "Electricity Supply in the UK: A chronology" (PDF). Electricity Council. c. 1987. 1963, p.87. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ Thorpe Marsh Power Station (Workmen's Deaths). Hansard – Written answers (Commons). Vol. 852. 5 March 1973. c42W.
- ^ "Thorpe Marsh Power Station". Hansard – House of Commons. 16 June 1993. cc968-74.
- ^ "Thorpe Marsh". Able UK. Archived from the original on 19 September 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
- ^ Flooding: Fifth Report of Session 2007–08. Vol. 2: Oral and Written Evidence. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. 7 May 2008. Ev 309–310, §20–33, "Memorandum Submitted by National Grid (FL 80). ISBN 978-0-215-51488-2.
- ^ "Two power plants to create 1,000 jobs in Yorkshire". BBC News. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ^ "Thorpe Marsh may be first UK Flexefficiency application". Modern Power Systems. 9 November 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Department of Energy and Climate Change Construction and Operation of a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Electricity Generating Station at the Thorpe Marsh, Barnby Dun, Doncaster" (PDF). www.og.decc.gov.uk. 31 October 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Thorpe Marsh Gas Pipeline". infrastructure.planningportal.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ "ABLE Thorpe Marsh". Able UK. Archived from the original on 4 October 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
Further reading[]
- Thorpe Marsh 1965. A guide to Thorpe Marsh Power Station. CEGB. 1965.
- "Thorpe Marsh". CEGB. 1967.
- Millar, John (June 1993). "The lights go out at Thorpe Marsh power station". Rail Magazine.
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thorpe Marsh Power Station. |
- "Thorpe Marsh Final Two Cooling Towers Demolition 19th August 2012". YouTube. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021.
- Daniels, Rob. "Thorpe Marsh: Requiem For a Power Station". Flickr.
- "Thorpe Marsh Power Station". Urban Exploration in Doncaster, Yorkshire. Archived from the original on 9 January 2012. Images of derelict power station c. 2006.
- Blackwell, T.J. "Thorpe Marsh Power Station". Images from c. 2010.
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