Roosecote Power Station

Coordinates: 54°06′18″N 3°11′16″W / 54.10499°N 3.187732°W / 54.10499; -3.187732
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Roosecote Power Station
Roosecote Power Station
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CountryEngland
LocationCumbria, North West England
Coordinates54°06′18″N 3°11′16″W / 54.10499°N 3.187732°W / 54.10499; -3.187732
StatusCoal-fired and CCGT stations decommissioned and demolished, Battery facility operational
Construction beganCoal-fired: Late 1940s[1]
CCGT: 1990
Battery: 2017[2]
Commission dateCoal-fired: 1953
CCGT: 1991
Battery: 2018
Decommission dateCoal-fired: 1986
CCGT: 2012
OwnersBritish Electricity Authority
(1953–1955)
Central Electricity Authority
(1955–1957)
Central Electricity Generating Board
(1958–1986)
Centrica
(1991–present)
OperatorAs owner
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCoal-fired Coal, CCGT Natural gas
Site area114.5 acres
ChimneysCoal-fired 2; CCGT 1
Cooling sourceSeawater
Power generation
Units operationalCoal-fired 4 × 32 MW, CCGT 120 MW
Annual net output
331 GWh (1971), 144 GWh (1981)
Storage capacity49 MW
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grid reference SD223683
Roosecote Power Station 1955

Roosecote Power Station was a

National Grid, but was mothballed in 2012 after a proposed biomass power station was cancelled. It was situated directly adjacent to Rampside Gas Terminal
. The plant was demolished between 2014 and 2015. The site is now a 49 MW battery storage facility.

Coal-fired power station

Roosecote Power Station from the West 1955

The

Central Electricity Authority, which became the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1957. The output from the station was:[4][5][6][7]

Roosecote power station output, GWh
Year 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1961 1962 1963 1967 1972 1979 1982
Output GWh 82.7 344.2 443.7 422.8 263.6 301.15 265.79 298.68 416.7 330.8 256.6 144.32
Thermal efficiency, % 26.11 27.02 27.05 26.87 26.35 25.70 25.63 25.92 26.49 25.25 24.54 24.01

The four Yarrow boilers at Roosecote had a total steam generating capacity of 1.2 million pounds per hour (151.2 kg/s).[5] The steam conditions were 600/625 psi and 865 °F (41.4 bar and 463 °C). Condensing of steam from the turbines was by seawater.

The station closed in November 1986.[8] At the time of its closure only 60 MW of the station's capacity was in operation.[9]

CCGT power station

The first organisation to plan for a new power station on the site was Cumbria Power in 1987, formed of four engineers. They hoped to build a CCGT plant that used the steam turbines of the former plant. This idea wasn't feasible, so a new power station was chosen instead, but situated in the former turbine hall.

regional electricity company
and a private generator. NORWEB also bought 20% of the company.

Construction started on 3 January 1990, the construction work carried out by Alfred McAlpine and Stone & Webster. The station was commissioned on 20 November 1991, although officially opened on 1 November 1991 by John Wakeham. It had been the first Independent Power Project (IPP) since the privatisation of the UK electricity industry in 1990. Roosecote station marked the start of the "Dash for Gas" which saw many more CCGTs built in the UK, as gas became an alternative to coal power. This hastened the demise of Britain's coal industry. In 1997, the newly elected Labour government placed restrictions on the number of gas-fired power stations that could be built.

Roosecote was operated by ABB, though owned by Lakeland Power. ABB then sold its 60% stake of the company to

TXU who had bought NORWEB's supply business, and the station was temporarily shut down. On 14 May 2003, the station was bought by Centrica Energy for £24 million. Centrica proposed building a new 80MW biomass plant on the site but regulatory changes led to this being cancelled in October 2012. At the same time Centrica announced that Roosecote would be mothballed pending a final decision on the future of the site, which might include closure, redevelopment or sale as a going concern.[10]
In September 2014 Centrica Energy confirmed it had received planning permission to demolish Roosecote Power Station. The plant was no longer deemed economically viable due to the age and condition of the plant.

Specification

Prior to decommissioning, the station was a

National Grid, via a transformer, at 132 kV, where it powered part of the United Utilities (former NORWEB
) network. By March 2012 it was reconfigured to allow operation in the Short Term Operating Reserve market.

Battery storage plant

In 2018 Centrica Business Solutions commissioned the 49 MW Roosecote battery storage facility. The battery helps to keep the electricity grid stable by either absorbing power from, or supplying power to, the grid and is able to come online in less than a second.[11] Centrica Business Solutions is also expanding its own renewable energy network through the set up of Centrica Energy Assets, where land is leased for both solar farms and battery storage.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Centrica to convert old coal power station to huge battery storage facility". 26 February 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Roosecote battery enters service". Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  3. ISBN 0851880762
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  4. ^ a b Garrett, Frederick C., ed. (1959). Garke's Manual of Electricity Supply (vol. 56). London: Electrical Press. pp. A-89, A-132.
  5. ^ a b CEGB (1972). CEGB Statistical Yearbook 1972. London: CEGB. p. 17.
  6. ISBN 0902543598
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  7. ISBN 0902543695
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  8. ^ Mr. Franks (7 November 1988). "Central Electricity Generating Board". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 4 September 2009.
  9. ^ Mr. Goodlad (18 February 1987). "Power Stations". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 4 September 2009.
  10. ^ "Centrica Energy withdraws from two biomass planning applications and considers future of existing gas-fired power plant at Roosecote". Centrica plc. 24 October 2012.
  11. ^ "Battery Storage Plant". Centrica. 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
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