Killingholme A Power Station was a combined‐cycle gas turbine natural gas power station within the civil parish of North Killingholme, in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. The facility lies north of the

Lindsey Oil Refinery Lindsey Oil Refinery is an oil refinery in North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire, England owned and operated by the Prax Group. It lies to the north of the Humber Refinery, owned by rival oil company Phillips 66, and the railway line to Immingha ...

, and adjacent to

Killingholme B power station Killingholme B Power Station is a Combined‐cycle gas turbine natural gas power station in the civil parish of North Killingholme in North Lincolnshire, north of the Lindsey Oil Refinery, and adjacent to Killingholme A power station Killingh ...

. Killingholme A (665 MW) opened in 1994 and its final synchronisation took place in March 2016 with a combined station output of 635 MW.

Construction

Three heat recovery steam generators were built by International Combustion at Derby (owned by NEI), costing £20m.The project manager was Tim Enfield.The site was planned in April 1989. Building began in January 1991, built by NEI ABB Gas Turbines Ltd; NEI Parsons were from Newcastle. NEI built the steam turbines. In April 1993 a contract was signed to acquire gas from the Caister platform.

Electricity

The site produced its first electricity in April 1993. The site was officially opened on Thursday October 8 1993 by the National Power chairman, and the chief executive John Baker, with Tony Bethell. The whole site cost £250m. The same design would be built in North Wales and Bedfordshire. A 7km line of 47 metre high pylons, with 30 towers was built near Ulceby, North Lincolnshire in September 1991 by Eve Transmission, which connected to the 4KG transmission line from Keadby to the Grimsby West substation.

Specification

The power station used three Alstom GT-13D 145 MW gas turbines each with a heat recovery steam generator which lead to one Alstom 227 MW

steam turbine A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884. Fabrication of a modern steam turbin ...

. The power station was owned by

Centrica Centrica plc is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire. Its principal activity is the supply of electricity and gas to consumers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is the largest su ...

and employed 52 people. The plant opened in 1994 and was operated by National Power until 2000 when it was bought by

NRG Energy NRG Energy, Inc. is an American energy company, headquartered in Houston, Texas. It was formerly the wholesale arm of Northern States Power Company (NSP), which became Xcel Energy, but became independent in 2000. NRG Energy is involved in energ ...

for £390 million. It was then purchased in 2003 by a consortium of twenty banks when NRG got into financial difficulty and was then bought by Centrica in July 2004 for £142 million. In early 2014 Centrica began to seek buyers for a number of its gas power plants, including its South Humber and Killingholme plants, and in early 2015 began discussion on the closure of the plant, having received no acceptable bids for the plant. The plant was finally decommissioned in March 2016. Demolition of Killingholme A commenced in late 2017.

Gallery

File:Automatic Voltage Regulator adjustment.jpg, Automatic Voltage Regulator. File:Killingholme A power station control room.jpg, Killingholme A control room. File:Final run of Killingholme A power station.jpg, Killingholme A power station.

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* {{Yorkshire Powerstations Natural gas-fired power stations in England Power stations in Lincolnshire Power stations in Yorkshire and the Humber Centrica