Coryton Power Station is a 732 MW

Combined Cycle Gas Turbine A combined cycle power plant is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem from the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy. On land, when used to make electricity the most common type is called a combined cycle gas turb ...

(CCGT) gas-fired power station at Coryton,

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, Essex, UK.

History

The site was part of the

Coryton Refinery Coryton Refinery was an oil refinery in Essex, England, on the estuary of the River Thames from central London, between Shell Haven Creek and Hole Haven Creek, which separates Canvey Island from the mainland. It was a part of the Port of Lo ...

before its closure in 2012. Owned by InterGen, Coryton Power Station was built by

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between 2000 and 2002, and cost £470 million. It was commissioned in 2002 and is run by Coryton Energy Ltd. The InterGen is owned by Sev.en Global Investments.

Specification

It is a CCGT type power station that uses

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. Gas is supplied to the site through a 7 km underground pipeline from an off-take from the National Grid Gas

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south of

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. It has two ABB

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gas turbine A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of Internal combustion engine#Continuous combustion, continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the power-producing part (known as the gas gene ...

s driving two electricity generators. Gas turbine exhaust gas is led to two

heat recovery steam generator A heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) is a heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas stream, such as a combustion turbine or other waste gas stream. It produces steam that can be used in a process (cogeneration) or used to drive a steam ...

s. These power one

steam turbine A steam turbine or steam turbine engine is a machine or heat engine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work utilising a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Par ...

, connected to a further generator. The station connects to the electricity National Grid at the nearby 400 kV Coryton South

substation A substation is a part of an electrical Electricity generation, generation, electric power transmission, transmission, and electric power distribution, distribution system. Substations transform voltage from high to low, or the reverse, or pe ...

Gateway Energy Centre

Gateway Energy Centre is a proposed 1250 MW gas-turbine power station to be located on the

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Logistics Park about 1 km west of Coryton power station. It will be either a gas-fired 2 × CCGT plant; a 1 × CCGT plus 1 ×

Open Cycle Gas Turbine A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the power-producing part (known as the gas generator or core) and are, in the direction of flow: ...

(OCGT) facility, and/or a 320 MW battery energy storage system. It will be developed by InterGen. Original consent was granted in 2011, with subsequent revisions and consents granted in 2014 and 2016. CO₂ capture facilities will be installed if mandated. Construction is likely to start in 2022 with commercial operation expected in 2024. In 2020 InterGen gained consent for a 640 MWh

lithium-ion A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses the reversible Intercalation (chemistry), intercalation of Li+ ions into electronically Electrical conductor, conducting solids to store energy. Li-ion batteries are c ...

battery storage power station A battery energy storage system (BESS), battery storage power station, battery energy grid storage (BEGS) or battery grid storage is a type of energy storage technology that uses a group of batteries in the grid to store electrical energy. Batte ...

near the site, capable of delivering 320 MW for nearly 2 hours. The £200 million project is expected start in 2022 and become operational in 2024.

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Intergen

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History

Specification

Gateway Energy Centre

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