Corby Power Station
Corby Power Station is a 350 MWe gas-fired power station on Mitchell Road off Phoenix Parkway in the north-east of Corby in Northamptonshire. It is near the Rockingham racetrack.History
The station was originally owned by East Midlands Electricity, with smaller shares owned by Hawker Siddeley and ESB International, under the name Corby Power Ltd. It was constructed by Hawker Siddeley Power Engineering, Ewbank Preece, and Kier. It opened in February 1994.
In September 2000, East Midlands Electricity sold off its 80% stake of the power station to Powergen. ESB owned the other 20%. Powergen became E.ON UK in 2004. In October 2000, the ownership changed to 50% Powergen and 50% ESB International.
ESB acquired in May 2011 EON's share of the station becoming the single owner of the plant.Operations
The power station is a combined cycle power plant. It has two 119 megawatt General Electric Frame 9 gas turbines produced by EGT. Each has a Babcock Energy heat recovery steam generator. These lead onto one 114 MW steam turbine. The station's generators were built by Brush.
