History
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Baglan Bay power station is a 525MWe gas-fired power station situated on Baglan Moors just west of Port Talbot in Wales.
The power station was built on the site of the former Isopropanol BP chemicals plant in September 2003, costing £300 million. At the time of its development, it was considered the most advanced CCGT facility of its kind with close to 60% efficiency. It was built by the GE Energy division of General Electric, who later rebranded to GE Power then GE Gas Power. It was sold by GE in October 2012 to a group of financial investors, led by Macquarie Group.[1] After the sale, GE continued to operate the power station under an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract until 2019 when staff at the power plant were TUPE transferred to Calon Energy.
In June 2020 the Baglan Group entered administration and in July 2020 the power station ceased generating electricity. [2] Power was supplied to the Baglan Energy Park which is home to a large number of other businesses and organisations via the power stations connection to the National Grid. From August 2022, the private wire network is no longer in use and the businesses on the energy park have made arrangements for their own independent power supply.
Visit
Visited with @Orange coat paranoia and @Sheard . No hassle, the place was quite busy, Police showed up, the Fire Brigade got called out too. Eventful day.
Not the greatest of stations, but a good day out non the less. Won’t be much left of it soon mind.
Pics
The Station as it currently sits, on it’s own.
Demolition of the cooling towers from the BP chemical plant that was formerly on the site, with the station behind them. These were just taken on my phone from pictures hung up in the burned out admin block.
Under construction
Some GE bits
Turbine being delivered by rail.
When it was operational
Similar view today
Railway sidings going into the station
Looks like the control room had been torched for ease of copper removal
View across the turbine hall floor, showing the unit to the left encased in a heatproof, sound deadening enclosure and the gantry crane
The 50 Hz H-Class General Electric Gas turbine
@Orange coat paranoia stood onto Pyestock style....ish
Pipes n more pipes
Photogenic
Some guy touches goons LOL
Copied from Wikipedia
Baglan Bay power station is a 525MWe gas-fired power station situated on Baglan Moors just west of Port Talbot in Wales.
The power station was built on the site of the former Isopropanol BP chemicals plant in September 2003, costing £300 million. At the time of its development, it was considered the most advanced CCGT facility of its kind with close to 60% efficiency. It was built by the GE Energy division of General Electric, who later rebranded to GE Power then GE Gas Power. It was sold by GE in October 2012 to a group of financial investors, led by Macquarie Group.[1] After the sale, GE continued to operate the power station under an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract until 2019 when staff at the power plant were TUPE transferred to Calon Energy.
In June 2020 the Baglan Group entered administration and in July 2020 the power station ceased generating electricity. [2] Power was supplied to the Baglan Energy Park which is home to a large number of other businesses and organisations via the power stations connection to the National Grid. From August 2022, the private wire network is no longer in use and the businesses on the energy park have made arrangements for their own independent power supply.
Visit
Visited with @Orange coat paranoia and @Sheard . No hassle, the place was quite busy, Police showed up, the Fire Brigade got called out too. Eventful day.
Not the greatest of stations, but a good day out non the less. Won’t be much left of it soon mind.
Pics
The Station as it currently sits, on it’s own.
Demolition of the cooling towers from the BP chemical plant that was formerly on the site, with the station behind them. These were just taken on my phone from pictures hung up in the burned out admin block.
Under construction
Some GE bits
Turbine being delivered by rail.
When it was operational
Similar view today
Railway sidings going into the station
Looks like the control room had been torched for ease of copper removal
View across the turbine hall floor, showing the unit to the left encased in a heatproof, sound deadening enclosure and the gantry crane
The 50 Hz H-Class General Electric Gas turbine
@Orange coat paranoia stood onto Pyestock style....ish
Pipes n more pipes
Photogenic
Some guy touches goons LOL
