Newbury Power Station
1892 Newbury Corporation were granted powers to generate and supply electricity. However, the town council did not develop the electricity undertaking.
1901 the Urban Electric Supply Company obtained a provisional order to supply electricity to Newbury. It built a power station at Greenham Mill on the River Kennet and which opened in January 1905.
In addition to the hydro-electric plant, gas-fired generators were installed at the power station.
1923 Rating of plant: 672 kW.
By 1937 it had been acquired by Wessex Electricity Co which replaced the water wheels and gas engines with diesel engine sets.
1948 Electricity supply industry was nationalised .
1954/5 Two 1050 kW Ruston-Peebles diesel engine sets generating at 11 kV were installed. The existing 110 kW diesel engine set and two 180 kW diesel engine sets were also in use. The total generating capacity was 2.57 MW.
c.1970 Newbury power station closed
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