Isle of Grain Power Station
Oil-fired power station of the CEGB; claimed to be the largest such in Europe when it opened, with a design output of 3,300 MW. The site was chosen to utilise oil from the adjacent BP oil refinery, as well as having good access to water supplies.
1971 The construction of Grain Power Station began
1975 electricity was first produced
1980 The complex was completed.
Grain Power Station is architecturally distinctive and includes the use of some types of steel-framed and reinforced-concrete construction on an unusually large scale. The executive architects were Farmer and Dark, assisted by Donald Rudd and Partners. Five main sub-contractors were used - John Laing (civil engineering), Redpath Dorman Long (structural steelwork), G.E.C. Turbines (turbo-generators), Babcock and Wilcox (boiler plant) and N. G. Bailey (electrical work). Civil engineering design was by the C.E.G.B. in collaboration with L. G. Mouchel and Partners.
Later owned by PowerGen
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Sources of Information
- [1] Historic England