Ipswich Power Station
Ipswich Generating Station and adjoining tramshed in Constantine Road, Ipswich.
1903 Station built for Ipswich Corporation to provide electricity for the tramways and also for lighting. Designed by Stanley Peach. The site chosen was close to the municipal pumping station[1]
By 1913 the capacity was 3,500 kW., supplied partly by two 1,000-kW Willans and Robinson turbines, each coupled to two Siemens 500-kW dynamos. Each dynamo was arranged so that it could be used, either as a shunt machine for working the ordinary lighting and power supply, or as a compound machine on the traction supply. The remaining 1,500 kW of plant was a Reavell high-speed engine coupled to dynamos made by A.E.G. of Berlin.
Subsequently extended (1919?). Building had an elaborate frontage at one end (matching the tramshed); later extensions left the other end with a corrugated iron frontage.
By 1923 Ipswich power station was equipped with two 3 MW turbo alternators and one 225 kW reciprocating machine providing a 3-phase, 50 Hz, 230 and 400 Volt AC supply.
In addition there were smaller machines generating 230 and 460 Volt DC supplies.
1948 Upon nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry, the ownership was vested in the British Electricity Authority
1961 Ipswich power station had an installed capacity of 17.25 MW.
1967 De-commissioned.