Corby Power Station is a 350 MWe gas-fired power station on Mitchell Road (A6116) in the north-east of

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. It is near (to the west of) the Rockingham racetrack.

History

The station was originally owned by

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, with smaller shares owned by

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and ESB International (the

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's national electricity company), under the name Corby Power Ltd. It was constructed by Hawker Siddeley Power Engineering, Ewbank Preece (became part of Mott MacDonald in 1994), and Kier. It opened in February 1994. In September 2000, East Midlands Electricity (owned by the American

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) sold off its 80% stake of the power station to Powergen. ESB owned the other 20%. Powergen became E.ON UK in 2004. In October 2000, the ownership changed to 50% Powergen and 50% ESB International. ESB acquired in May 2011 EON's share of the station becoming the single owner of the plant.

Operations

The power station is a combined cycle power plant. It has two 119

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(MW)

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Frame 9 (9001E)

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s produced by EGT. Each has a Babcock Energy heat recovery steam generator. These lead onto one 114 MW

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. The station's generators were built by Brush.

References

External links

Photo of Corby from Phoenix Parkway
{{East Midlands powerstations Natural gas-fired power stations in England Buildings and structures in Northamptonshire E.ON Power stations in the East Midlands