Pembroke Power Station

Pembroke Power Station is a proposed 2000 MWe gas-fired power station situated in Pembroke Dock in Pembrokeshire.

History

There was a former CEGB 2000 MW oil-fired power station on the [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/479948 site] from 1968 until 1996, when it was mothballed by National Power. In 1996, the company proposed to use the controversial fuel Orimulsion but changed its mind in September 1997. It was demolished from 2000-3, after National Power put the site up for sale in July 2000. National Power first proposed a CCGT power plant on the site in 1997, and this plan lasted until the price of electricity plummeted five years later. The German company, RWE (former National Power), decided in 2007 to build a £800 million power station on the site, after initially concelling the plan when it chose Staythorpe instead. The construction will be the largest power station built in the UK since Drax was completed in 1986, and will provide enough power for 3 millions homes. The EPC contractor is Alstom. Construction is expected to begin in 2008 and will last until 2012, and it will employ around one hundred people. The old power station employed around 300 people.

pecification

It will be a CCGT-type power station that uses natural gas. Gas will come from the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Milford Haven and not directly from a gas-field. There would be five 400 MW modules, each with a 288 MWe Alstom [http://www.power.alstom.com/home/equipment___systems/turbines/gas_turbines/gt24_and_gt26___188mw_and_281mw_/34621.EN.php?languageId=EN&dir=/home/equipment___systems/turbines/gas_turbines/gt24_and_gt26___188mw_and_281mw_/ GT26B] gas turbine, heat recovery steam generator and steam turbine.

External links

* [http://www.pembrokepowerstation.co.uk RWE npower]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1039544.stm Station demolished in November 2000]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6938671.stm Decision to build the plant in August 2007]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/6330883.stm RWE decides which plant to build in February 2007]
* [http://new.wales.gov.uk/about/cabinet/cabinetstatements/2007/1294166/?lang=en Welsh Assembly documents]