Fawley Power Station
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Fawley Power Station
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 Location of Fawley Power Station in Hampshire
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| Country | England |
| Location | Hampshire, South East England |
| Coordinates | 50°49′00″N 1°19′44″W / 50.816696°N 1.328881°WCoordinates: 50°49′00″N 1°19′44″W / 50.816696°N 1.328881°W |
| Commission date | 1971 |
| Decommission date | 2013 |
| Operator(s) | RWE npower |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Oil-fired |
| grid reference SU473021 | |
Fawley Power Station was 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). Architect Colin Morse
The station, which in its final years was owned and operated by Npower, was oil-fired, powered by heavy fuel oil. A pipeline connected the station to the nearby Fawley oil refinery. Because oil is more expensive than other fuels such as coal and natural gas, Fawley did not operate continuously, but came on line at times of high demand.
It was also connected to the National Grid with circuits going to Nursling and a tunnel under Southampton Water to Chilling then to Lovedean with a local substation at Botley Wood.
A dock was included in the construction, to allow for the delivery of oil by sea; however after one ship-delivery (essentially a trial) this facility remained disused.
Fawley was built by Mitchell Construction 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.
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