Radcliffe Power Station
| Radcliffe Power Station | |
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| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Location | Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, North West England |
| Coordinates | 53°33′13″N 2°20′22″W / 53.553529°N 2.339519°WCoordinates: 53°33′13″N 2°20′22″W / 53.553529°N 2.339519°W |
| Status | Demolished |
| Commission date | 1905 |
| Decommission date | 1959 |
| Operator(s) | The Lancashire Electric Power Company |
| Power station information | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
| Power generation information | |
| Installed capacity | 3 MW |
| As of 31 October 2010 | |
Radcliffe Power Station was a coal-fired power station in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, England.
[edit] History
The station was opened on 9 October 1905 by the Earl of Derby.[1] It generated electricity using two 1.5 megawatt (MW) turbo generating sets made by British Thomson-Houston. Radcliffe Power Station was the first power station in the UK to transmit power by bare electrical conductors at 10 kilovolts (kV).[2] The station was fed coal by the nearby East Lancashire Railway line.
In May 1926, The Times reported that the cost of generation per unit of electricity was .25d (approximately £0.001 today), the cost per unit sold being .483d (approximately £0.002). The station had delivered 125,727,060 units of electricity.[3]
The station was originally operated by The Lancashire Electric Power Company but was operated by the British Electricity Authority, Central Electricity Authority and Central Electricity Generating Board after nationalisation in 1947. It was closed a few years later in 1959.[citation needed]
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