Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Rye House Power Station

From Graces Guide
1954.

1951 A coal fired power station with capacity 128 MW was built; it had four 30 MW Richardsons Westgarth-Parsons turbo-alternators

1965 An open cycle gas turbine plant was commissioned.

1982 Both these stations were closed on 1 November and subsequently demolished.

1993 A 715 MW gas-fired combined-cycle station was built; it was fully commissioned in November 1993.

Rye House Power Station is owned and operated by VPI, part of the Vitol group.

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