Motherwell Power House
of the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Co
1902 British Westinghouse Electrical & Manufacturing Co Ltd was contracted to design, equip and build the station.
1903 Babcock and Wilcox contracted to supply the boilers
1906 The Motherwell power station opened in January with 2x 2MW turbo-alternator sets.
1908 the two 2MW sets at Motherwell were upgraded to 3MW each by rewinding; one of the 2MW sets was transferred from Yoker to Motherwell
By 1912 Two additional 5MW sets had been installed at Motherwell
c.1930 The Motherwell station was closed
See Also
Sources of Information
- Power Stations & Electricity Generation in Glasgow [1]