§ Viscount Hanworthasked Her Majesty's Government:
In view of the high proportion of electricity generating stations which will be time expired in the early part of the next century, how many replacement stations and of what capacity have become (a) reasonably firm commitments for construction and (b) likely possibilities.
§ Lord Cavendish of FurnessUnder this Administration, in the period before the Electricity Act 1989 came into force, the following consents to construct major electricity generating stations (above 50MW) were granted under Section 2 of the Electric Lighting Act 1909:
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Promoter/Consortium Location Estimated Output (MW) Applied Energy Services Medway Ltd Medway, Kent 660 Barking Power Ltd Barking, London 1,000 Cory Environmental Ltd Belvedere, Kent 95–100 Coryton Cogen Ltd Coryton, Essex 460 Eastern Generation Ltd Lawford, Essex 380 Kelt (UK) Ltd Ryedale, Yorkshire 50–60 National Power plc Didcot "B", Oxfordshire 1,500 National Power plc Staythorpe "C", Nottinghamshire 1,500 PowerGen plc Plymouth, Devon 350–450 Texaco Ltd Angle Bay, Dyfed 1,100–1,280 My department is also aware of a number of other proposed major electricity generating projects which are in the public domain, some of received or applied for permission to construct a station under planning legislation before the Electricity Act 1989 came into force. These include:
Promoter/Consortium Location Estimated Output (MW) Berisford Bristar plc Brigg, South Humberside 240 British Nuclear Fuels plc Calder Hall, Sellafield 160 Corby Power Ltd Corby, South Humberside 350 East Midlands Electricity plc/British Coal Corporation Bilsthorpe 150 Energy Supply Co. Kings Lynn, Norfolk 110 Forth Energy Ltd Newcastle 150 Lakeland Power Roosecote, Cumbria 235 MetroPower Ltd Greenwich, London 370 MetroPower Ltd Lots Road, Chelsea, London 370 Neptune Consortium Teesside 1,050 Peterborough Power Ltd Peterborough 355 Sheffield Heat and Power Sheffield 160