Fawley Power Station is an oil-fired power station located on the western side of Southampton Water, between the villages of Fawley and Calshot in Hampshire. Its 198 m (650 feet) chimney is a prominent (and navigationally useful) landmark, but it is not, as is sometimes claimed, the highest point in Hampshire (which is Pilot Hill).
[edit] Overview
The station, which today is owned and operated by N Power, is oil-fired, powered by heavy fuel oil. A pipeline connects the station to the nearby Fawley oil refinery. It is one of three power stations in the country to be run on oil. Because oil is more expensive than other fuels such as coal and natural gas, Fawley does not operate continuously, but comes on line at times of high demand. Two units were mothballed in 1995.[1] This means that the station currently produces only 1,000 MW of power.
[edit] History
Fawley was built by Mitchell Construction[2] for the CEGB and was commissioned in 1971 as a 2,000 megawatt (MW) power station, with four 500 MW generating units, each consisting of a boiler supplying steam to a turbine that powers an associated generator. It is interesting as the cooling pumps were Britain's largest with a flow of 210000 GPM. One was driven by an experimental super-conducting electric motor.
[edit] Proposed Fawley B station
CEGB plans for a coal-fired Fawley B station have not yet been pursued following privatisation of the industry.
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