Taylors Lane Power Station
Taylors Lane Power Station | |
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Country | England |
Location | Greater London |
Coordinates | 51°32′46″N 0°15′27″W / 51.54600°N 0.25750°W |
Status | Coal-fired station demolished; OCGT operational |
Commission date | 1904 and 1979 |
Decommission date | 1972 |
Owner(s) | |
Operator(s) | Northmet (1904-48), British Electricity Authority (1948-55), Central Electricity Authority (1955-57), Central Electricity Generating Board (1958-72); OCGT CEGB(1979-90), PowerGen (1990-),E.On, Uniper |
Thermal power station | |
Primary fuel | Coal, Natural gas |
Chimneys | OCGT 2 |
Power generation | |
Units operational | Coal-fired 2 × 32 MW |
Units decommissioned | Coal-fired all decommissioned |
Nameplate capacity | 132MW[1] |
External links | |
Commons | Related media on Commons |
grid reference TQ209844 |
Taylors Lane Power Station is situated in Willesden, north-west London. The first power station on the site, known as Willesden power station, was coal-fired and operated from 1904 to 1972 and was subsequently demolished. Taylors Lane is now an open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) power station built in 1979.
History
The first, coal-fired, station was built in 1904 by
Coal was delivered to the site by railway. There were two sidings off the Acton Branch (Dudding Hill) railway.[5] The sidings were extant in 1990 although they had been disconnected from the railway by 2005.[6]
This coal-fired power station closed in 1972.[2]
Specification
In 1923 the plant at Willesden (Taylors Lane) comprised 3 × 1,500 kW, 1 × 3,000 kW and 2 × 6,000 kW steam turbines providing a 3-phase AC supply.[7] In addition there was a single 750 kW reciprocating machine producing a 460 & 230V and a 480 & 240V DC supply. The total generating capacity was 20.25 MW. The turbines and reciprocating machines were supplied with 248,000 lb/hr (31.25 kg/s) of steam from the boilers.[7]
By 1963-64 Taylors Lane had 2 × 32 MW generators.[8] The steam capacity of the boilers was 880,000 lb/hr (110.9 kg/s); steam conditions at the turbine stop valves was 190/1350 psi (13.1/93.1 bar) and 343/513 °C. The boilers were a mixture of chain grate stoker and pulverised fuel. In 1963-64 the overall thermal efficiency of the B station was 20.95 per cent.[8] The first electrostatic precipitators in the UK were installed in 1929. Dust and grit were given a positive charge in an electric field then deposited on negatively charged screen or wires.[9]
Electricity output from coal-fired power station was as follows.[8][4][10][11][12]
Taylors Lane annual electricity output GWh.
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Taylors Lane OCGT station
The current station was opened in 1979 by the Central Electricity Generating Board. It is now operated by Uniper.[13] It can be operated remotely from Enfield Power Station and has two generator GEC Gas Turbine Quad Olympus units fired on gas-oil with a capacity of 132 MW. Each unit uses 4 gas generators derived from the Rolls-Royce Olympus jet engine.[1]
The station is adjacent to the 132 kV Leicester Road Grid substation with a 132 kV underground connection to the Willesden substation.[14]
In 2011, in the Lost episode of series 14 of the BBC thriller Silent Witness, a body is found in a lane beside the power station.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "Taylor's Lane - E.ON". E.ON. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
- ^ a b "Willesden: Public services". A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982), pp. 232-236. Victoria County History. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- ^ "LONDON ELECTRICITY BOARD (LEB) PRE-VESTING UNDERTAKINGS (1882 - 1948) LMA/4278/01 1883 - 2003". National Archives. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- ^ a b "British Power Stations operating at 31 December 1961". Electrical Review. 1 June 1961: 931.
- ISBN 0900609745.
- ISBN 0954986601.
- ^ a b Electricity Commission (1925). Electricity Supply - 1920-1923. London: HMSO. pp. 188–89.
- ^ a b c CEGB Statistical Yearbook (various years). CEGB, London.
- ISBN 085188105X.
- ^ Garrett, Frederick C., ed. (1959). Garcke's Manual of Electricity Supply. London: Electrical Press. pp. A-135, 136.
- ^ CEGB Annual Report and Accounts, various years
- ^ Electricity Commission, Generation of Electricity in Great Britain year ended 31st December 1946. London: HMSO, 1947.
- ^ "Power stations in the United Kingdom, May 2008 (DUKES 5.11)". Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Archived from the original on 28 August 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- ^ "Open Infrastructure Map". Open Infrastructure Map. Retrieved 4 April 2020.