Damhead Creek power station

Damhead Creek power station is a 792 MWe gas-fired power station in Kent, England, on the Hoo Peninsula. It is near the site of the decommissioned Kingsnorth power station.

Damhead Creek power station

History

Entergy, an American power firm, commissioned the plant. It was built by Raytheon Engineers and Constructor and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, who provided the gas turbine equipment. The plant entered service in February 2001. The company trades as Damhead Creek Ltd.

On 2 June 2004, the plant was bought by Scottish Power for £317 million.[1]

On 9 March 2009, Scottish Power announced plans to develop a second 1,000MW gas-fired power station adjacent to the current power station to be named Damhead Creek 2.

The plant was purchased and operated by Drax Generation Enterprise Ltd in 2018[2] before being sold to Vitol's VPI Holding in December 2020.[3]

Specification

It is a CCGT type power station that uses natural gas. There are two Mitsubishi 701F[4] gas turbines with the exhaust gas from each entering two (Dutch) NEM heat recovery steam generators. The steam from these enters one 216MWe Mitsubishi steam turbine. There are three hydrogen-cooled turbo generators: two on the gas turbines, and one on the steam turbine.

See also

References
  1. "ScottishPower Buys Damhead Creek Power Station" (Press release). ScottishPower. 2 June 2004. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010.
  2. "Acquisition of flexible, low-carbon and renewable UK power generation from Iberdrola". Drax. 16 October 2018.
  3. "Vitol's VPI Holding to acquire four CCGT's in the UK". Vitol. 15 December 2020.
  4. "Shanahan Engineering -Power Generation, Oil & Gas, Industry Process and Renewable Energy in every corner of the globe". Archived from the original on 18 November 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2008.
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