Rocksavage Power Station is an 800 MWe gas-fired power station in

Runcorn Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in the Borough of Halton in Cheshire, England. Its population in 2011 was 61,789. The town is in the southeast of the Liverpool City Region, with Liverpool to the northwest across the River Mersey. ...

, off the A557, at the junction of the

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and

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, and near junction 12 of the M56.

History

It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 31 July 1998, and owned by InterGen, a company that is now jointly owned by

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and

China Huaneng Group China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd., abbreviated as CHNG or Huaneng Group, is one of the five largest state-owned electricity generation enterprises in China, administrated by the State Council. It engages in the investment, construction, operat ...

. It cost £375m. The EPC contractor was Bechtel. The site trades as Rocksavage Power Company Ltd. It sponsors the Runcorn Jets baseball club, th
Highfield Male Voice Choir
and th
Weston Angling Club
The site has

for schoolchildren. The name comes from the nearby ruined Elizabethan mansion,

Rocksavage Rocksavage or Rock Savage was an Elizabethan mansion, which served as the primary seat of the Savage family. The house now lies in ruins, at in Clifton (now a district of Runcorn), Cheshire, England. Built for Sir John Savage, MP in 1565–156 ...

Specification

It is a CCGT-type powe
station
that uses

natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...

. It has two Alstom 260MW
GT26A
gas turbines, with an Alstom

heat recovery steam generator A heat recovery steam generator (''HRSG'') is an energy recovery heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas stream, such as a combustion turbine or other waste gas stream. It produces steam that can be used in a process (cogeneration) or us ...

each that produces steam for one

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280MWe steam turbine. The plant runs at 58%

thermal efficiency In thermodynamics, the thermal efficiency (\eta_) is a dimensionless performance measure of a device that uses thermal energy, such as an internal combustion engine, steam turbine, steam engine, boiler, furnace, refrigerator, ACs etc. For a ...

. 300MWe is used by the

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site (previously ICI) at Weston Point that makes hydrofluororcarbons (HFCs), and the other 400MWe is sold by

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(formerly Scottish Hydro) for electricity supply.

References

External links

IntergenABB wins order for gas turbines
{{North West Power Stations Natural gas-fired power stations in England Power stations in North West England Buildings and structures in Runcorn