Barry Power Station
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| Barry Power Station | |
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 Barry Power Station | |
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| Country | Wales, United Kingdom |
| Location | Sully, Vale of Glamorgan |
| Coordinates | 51°24′29″N 3°13′43″W / 51.408134°N 3.228712°W |
| Status | Non-Operational |
| Construction began | 1997 |
| Commission date | 1998 |
| Decommission date | 2019 |
| Owner | |
| Operator | Centrica |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Natural gas |
| Combined cycle? | Yes |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 1 x 160 MW 1 x 75 MW |
| Make and model | Siemens |
| Nameplate capacity | 230 MW |
| External links | |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
Barry Power Station was a 230 MWe gas-fired power station on Sully Moors Road in Sully in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It was eight miles west of Cardiff and was situated next to a large Ineos Vinyls chemicals works that makes PVC and a Hexion Chemicals plant.
Construction began in January 1997 and it was opened on 7 September 1998, being owned by the AES Corporation but trading as AES Barry Ltd. Until 2000 it ran as a base load station. It was bought by Centrica on 24 July 2003 for £39.7m. AES sold the plant because of the low price of electricity at that time.[citation needed]
The closure of the plant was proposed in Centrica's accounts in February 2012, but the following month a contract was signed to use it to supply peak power.[1] This required a reconfiguration to allow full load to be reached more quickly, and redundancy for a third of the workforce.[1] It was then run in an open-cycle mode, halving operating costs, with the option of switching to combined-cycle mode after an hour.[2] The plant ceased generation on 31 March 2019 and closed on 10 May 2019 with demolition proposed to commence in summer 2019.[citation needed] It was observed that demolition was well underway by July 2019 and by September 2019, the grey steel chimney had been removed, thus a previously well-defined landmark had disappeared.
