Medway Power Station is a 735 megawatts gas-fired power station on the

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in Medway next to the River Medway.

History

The station is run by Scottish & Southern Energy under the name Medway Power Ltd. It was built by Marubeni (Japanese), Tarmac and Kansas City-based

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. It was commissioned in 1995, being originally owned (25%) by

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-based

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(trading as AES Electric) and the

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s SEEBOARD (37.5%) and

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(became SSE in 1998). In June 2002,

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(AEP) sold its SEEBOARD company to eDF, giving eDF 37.5% of the power station. SSE bought the plant from AES and

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for £242m on 3 October 2003. It is near (west of) to the

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and next to the

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. , most UK gas assets have won contracts in the annual T-4 Capacity Market auctions. However, Medway has been unsuccessful in the last four.

Specification

It is a CCGT-type power station that runs on natural gas. It has two

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Frame 9 (9001F)

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s. The exhaust gas from these reaches two Nooter Eriksen

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s. The steam from these powers one General Electric steam turbine. During a major upgrade project in 2012 the power station benefitted from the GE DLN 2.6 install as well as an upgrade to the excitation and turbine control system. Currently the power station operates as a two-shifting plant with approximately 20MW of black start capacity.

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Other CCGTs in southern England
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