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Wilton power stations
Wilton power stations in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Wilton power stations is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Wilton power station refers to a series of coal, oil, gas and biomass fired CHP power stations which provide electricity and heat for the Wilton International Complex, with excess electricity being sold to the National Grid. It is located on the Wilton site in Redcar and Cleveland, south of the town of Middlesbrough in North East England. The station has provided for the site since opening in 1952, when it was operated by ICI. The station is currently owned and operated by SembCorp Industries. It comprises a variety of generating sets, with units of different ages and various fuels. The station is currently mainly coal and oil fired, but also has a CCGT unit. Wilton 10 was opened at the station in 2007, the UK's first ever large scale biomass only power station. The power station's total generating capacity across all of its units is 227 megawatts. There are plans to build another plant, Wilton 11, a waste to energy plant.
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Background
History
Wilton Power Station has been generating electricity and providing steam to the plants on the Wilton International complex since March 1952. A secondary turbine commissioned at the station in November 1951 is still operating there today. For a long time the station was operated by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), but they sold the station to American company Enron in November 1998. In early 2002 Enron went bankrupt, and the station was sold to SembCorp. The station has been approved as a "Good quality" combined heat and power plant under the CHPQA registration scheme. This means that despite burning fossil fuels like coal and oil, the station is exempt from the Climate Change Levy, a tax…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5894, -1.1185
- Address
- Middlesbrough
- Official site
- www.sembutilities.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q8023409 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Wilton power stations (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Wilton power stations?
- Wilton power stations is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5894°, -1.1185°.
- Who owns Wilton power stations?
- Wilton power stations is owned by | operator = {{Unbulleted list | Imperial Chemical Industries (1952-1998) | Enron (1998-2002) | SembCorp Utilities (2002-present) }}.