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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.
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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.
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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
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were built by International Combustion at Derby (owned by NEI), costing £20 million. The project manager was Tim Enfield. The site was planned in April 1989.
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chairman, and the chief executive John Baker, with Tony Bethell. The whole site cost £250 million. The same design would be built in North Wales and
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Killingholme A (665 MW) opened in 1994 and its final synchronisation took place in March 2016 with a combined station output of 635 MW.
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The site produced its first electricity in April 1993. The site was officially opened on Thursday 8 October 1993 by the
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The plant was finally decommissioned in March 2016. Demolition of Killingholme A commenced in late 2017.
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Midttun, A., ed. (1997). "European Electricity Systems in Transition". Table III.4, p.66.
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A 7 km line of 47 metre high pylons, with 30 towers was built near
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The power station used three Alstom GT-13D 145 MW
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natural gas power station within the civil parish of
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England
Lincolnshire
East Midlands
53°39′34″N 0°15′18″W / 53.65952°N 0.25511°W / 53.65952; -0.25511
Commission date
National Power
NRG Energy
Centrica
Natural gas
Nameplate capacity
Related media on Commons
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combined‐cycle gas turbine
North Killingholme
North Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lindsey Oil Refinery
Killingholme B power station
heat recovery steam generators
Caister platform
National Power
Bedfordshire
Ulceby, North Lincolnshire
Eve Transmission
gas turbines
heat recovery steam generator
steam turbine
Centrica
National Power

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