Barry Power Station
{{For|the 2,671-MWe power station in Alabama, U.S.|James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant}}
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{{Infobox power station
| name = Barry Power Station
| name_official =
| image = Barry power station.jpg
| image_caption = Barry Power Station
| coordinates = {{coord|51.408134|-3.228712|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| country = Wales, United Kingdom
| location = Sully, Vale of Glamorgan
| status = Non-Operational
| construction_began = 1997
| commissioned = 1998
| decommissioned = 2019
| cost =
| owner =
| operator = Centrica
| th_fuel_primary = Natural gas
| th_fuel_tertiary =
| ps_units_operational = 1 x 160 MW
1 x 75 MW
| ps_units_manu_model = Siemens
| ps_combined_cycle = Yes
| ps_electrical_capacity = 230
| ps_electrical_cap_fac =
| website =
}}
Barry Power Station was a 230 MWe gas-fired power [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/393479 station] on Sully Moors Road in Sully in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It was eight miles west of Cardiff and was situated next to a large Ineos Vinyls chemicals works that makes PVC and a Hexion Chemicals plant.
History
Construction began in January 1997 and it was opened on 7 September 1998, being owned by the AES Corporation but trading as AES Barry Ltd. Until 2000 it ran as a base load station. It was bought by Centrica on 24 July 2003 for £39.7m. AES sold the plant because of the low price of electricity at that time.{{fact|date=May 2019}}
The closure of the plant was proposed in Centrica's accounts in February 2012, but the following month a contract was signed to use it to supply peak power.{{cite news | url=http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/9590389.Barry_Power_Station_to_remain_open__but_jobs_will_be_lost/ | title=Barry Power Station to remain open, but jobs will be lost | first=Chris | last=Seal | date= 15 March 2012 | newspaper=Barry & District News}} This required a reconfiguration to allow full load to be reached more quickly, and redundancy for a third of the workforce. It was then run in an open-cycle mode, halving operating costs, with the option of switching to combined-cycle mode after an hour.{{cite news | url=http://gastopowerjournal.com/projectsafinance/item/1031-centrica-runs-barry-gas-plant-230-mwe-in-open-cycle-mode-at-end-of-life-time | title= Centrica runs Barry gas plant (230 MWe) in open-cycle mode at end of life-time | newspaper=Gas To Power Journal | date=26 October 2012 }}
The plant ceased generation on 31 March 2019 and closed on 10 May 2019 with demolition proposed to commence in summer 2019.{{fact|date=May 2019}}
It was observed that demolition was well underway by July 2019 and by September 2019, the grey steel chimney had been removed, thus a previously well-defined landmark had disappeared.
Specification
It was a CCGT-type power station. There was one 160 MWe Siemens [https://web.archive.org/web/20080918095214/http://www.ansaldoenergia.com/GasTurbines_Features.htm V94.2] gas turbine (built by Ansaldo Energia in Genoa and now called the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080905222445/http://www.powergeneration.siemens.com/products-solutions-services/products-packages/gas-turbines/large-scale-50hz/sgt5-2000e/ SGT5-2000E]) that fed exhaust gas at 544 °C to a heat recovery steam generator. Steam from this entered a 75 MWe steam turbine running, like the gas turbine, at 3000 rpm. Exhaust steam was passed through an air-cooled condenser and returned to the system as de-aerated feedwater for the HRSG. It connected to the Western Power Distribution section of the National Grid via a substation at 132 kV. The generator on the gas turbine was rated at 180 MVA and had a terminal voltage of 15 kV; the steam turbine's was 11 kV.
The plant was 44% thermally efficient. The chimney was 60 m high.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100223012344/http://www.centricaenergy.com/index.asp?pageid=19 Centrica Energy]
- [https://archive.today/20130505064051/http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/278332/Centrica+buys+Barry+power+station.htm Centrica buys the power station]
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Category:Buildings and structures in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan