Derwent Power Station

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Derwent Power Station
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Derwent Power Station
Viewed from the east in October 2008
Derwent Power Station
CountryEngland
Location Derbyshire, East Midlands
Coordinates 52°54′23″N1°24′03″W / 52.9064°N 1.4007°W / 52.9064; -1.4007 Coordinates: 52°54′23″N1°24′03″W / 52.9064°N 1.4007°W / 52.9064; -1.4007
Commission date 1995
Decommission date2012 [1]
Operator(s) Scottish and Southern Energy
Thermal power station
Primary fuel Natural gas
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grid reference SK404345

Derwent Power Station is a mothballed 214MWe gas-fired power station on Holme Lane near Spondon in Derby, England. [1] It is built on the site of the former Spondon Power Station

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History

The current Derwent power station was built on the site of the former Spondon power stations. Spondon A was built in the 1920s by British Celanese. [2] It was sold to the Nottingham & Derby Power Company in 1929. It was then nationalised before eventually being sold to Courtaulds. [3] Spondon A eventually closed in the early 1980s. [4]

In 1959, the Spondon H process steam station opened alongside Spondon A. Spondon H had a capacity of 30 MW using three 10 MW sets, and was unique among the CEGBs power stations as it was designed primarily to produce steam to supply the British Celanese plant after passing through the back-pressure steam turbines. The station had two single-flue concrete chimneys of 96 m (315 ft) in height, one being demolished in the early 1990s the other in the early 2000s. The station also had four concrete cooling towers of 45 m (150 ft) in height located 0.25 miles to the east, these were in practice rarely used. They were demolished in 1984. [5]

The electricity output of the station was as follows. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Spondon electricity output, GWh
YearOutput, GWh
1954748.709
1955724.713
1956652.820
1957567.757
1958600.478
1961517.099
1962503.861
1963507.254
1967562.777
1972370.268
1979140.816
198266.373

Derwent power station

Derwent power station was originally built for Courtaulds Chemicals and was opened on 1 June 1995 by Tim Eggar, the Energy Secretary. It was owned 17.5% by Courtaulds, 33% by Mission Energy Company (UK) Ltd, and 49.5% by Southern Electric Power Generation (now owned by Scottish and Southern Energy). The nearby works are now owned by Accordis. The 33% stake of Mission Energy was sold to International Power. The other stakes are now owned by Mitsui. Near to the plant is Celanese Acetates Ltd, which used to be British Celanese, [12] which does not have any ownership of the power station. The textiles site was built in 1916 to provide waterproofing for aircraft wings, known as British Cellulose & Chemical Manufacturing and made cellulose acetate and Acetic anhydride. This came from techniques invented by the Swiss chemist, Henri Dreyfus. British Celanese and Courtaulds merged in 1957. Courtaulds was bought by Sara Lee in 2000 following a hostile takeover. The station later traded as Derwent Cogeneration Ltd.

Specification

Derwent was a combined cycle power station that ran on natural gas. Most of the power was generated for Celanese Acetate site next to the power station. Only around 50MWe is put into the National Grid; and the heat produces steam for the textile plant. This produced electricity for around 180,000 homes; enough for Derby and beyond. It has four General Electric Frame 6 MS6001B gas turbine and a 59MWe steam turbine and surface condenser. [13] It is a combined heat and power (CHP) plant.

Closure

In 2012, it was announced that the Combined Heat and Power plant (CHP) was to stop supplying steam to the adjacent textile plant due to it closing. [14] [15] The gas station also closed later that year with a loss of around 30 jobs. [16] Since 2012, the station has been retained for future use. In 2018, Peel Environmental purchased the mothballed station in the hope of recommencing power generation at the site. [16] However, these plans did not go ahead, and the station is due to be demolished in 2021 as it is "no longer commercially viable". [17]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Peel Environmental Acquire Mothballed 212MW Power Station Site In Derby". Peel L&P Environmental. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  2. ↑ "Spondon Power Station". www.spondonhistory.org.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "Spondon Power Station Cooling Towers". www.spondonhistory.org.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "Spondon Power Station". www.picturethepast.org.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  5. ↑ "Electricity Supply in the UK: A chronology" (PDF). Electricity Council. 1987. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  6. ↑ Garrett, Frederick C. (ed) (1959). Garcke's Manual of Electricity Supply. London: Electrical Press. pp. A-95, A-134.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ CEGB Annual report and Accounts, 1961, 1962 & 1963
  8. ↑ CEGB (1972). CEGB Statistical Yearbook 1972. London: CEGB. p. 13.
  9. ↑ CEGB (1979). CEGB Statistical Yearbook 1978-79. London: CEGB. p. 7. ISBN   0902543598.
  10. ↑ CEGB (1982). CEGB Statistical Yearbook 1981-82. London: CEGB. p. 7. ISBN   0902543695.
  11. ↑ CEGB (1967). CEGB Statistical Yearbook 1967. London: CEGB. p. 13.
  12. ↑ "British Celanese". Graces Guide.
  13. ↑ "MS6001FA Gas Turbines". GE Energy. Archived from the original on 29 August 2008. Retrieved 31 July 2008.
  14. ↑ Sutherland, Rachel (7 December 2018). "Former Celanese site tipped for new 'Park and Ride' scheme". Derby Telegraph. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  15. ↑ "Derwent CHP plant set to close at end of 2012". Combined Heat & Power Association. 26 March 2012. Archived from the original on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  16. 1 2 Johnson, Robin (12 July 2018). "Look which part of Derby's old Celanese plant is coming back to life". Derby Telegraph. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  17. ↑ Lodge, Matthew (22 November 2020). "Derelict Derby power station set to be demolished". Derby Telegraph. Retrieved 9 January 2021.