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Grain Power Station is a CCGT power station and former oil-fired power station in Kent, England, with operational capacity of owned by E.ON UK. ==Grain History== Grain was built on a site for the nationalised Central Electricity Generating Board. It was built by several contractors including John Laing Construction (Civils), the Cleveland Bridge Company (Steel Frame & Cladding), N. G. Bailey (Electrical), Babcock & Wilcox (Boilers) and GEC Turbine Generators Ltd (steam turbines) beginning before 1975.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Newcastle University )〕 It opened in 1979. It is located on the Isle of Grain, where the River Medway flows into the Thames Estuary. The station has the second tallest chimney in the UK,〔(Flue gas stack illustration )〕 at , visible from a wide area of North Kent and parts of South Essex; Drax Power Station has the tallest chimney, at 259 metres or 850 feet. Grain adjoins the site of the BP Kent oil refinery, which closed in 1982. The station burns oil to drive, via steam turbines, two (gross power output – but is used on-site, leaving for export to the Grid) alternators. The station is capable of generating enough electricity to supply approximately 2% of Britain's peak electricity needs. The station was originally designed to have a total capacity of from five sets of boiler/turbine combinations but currently has an operational capacity of 1,320MW. The two remaining oil-fired generating units were mothballed by Powergen in 2002 and 2003, but almost immediately the company began to consider reopening the plant as electricity prices increased rapidly. It is operated by E.ON UK who also operates the nearby Kingsnorth coal-fired station. The plant does not meet the emissions requirements of the Large Combustion Plant Directive and is required to close in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Large combustion plant directive )〕 However, due to the rising costs of maintaining the plant, E.ON UK, the owners of Grain Oil power station, announced that Grain is to be mothballed and the site closed by 31 December 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=E.ON UK announces oil-fired Grain-A power station to be mothballed and the site closed by 31 December 2012 )〕 Grain Oil power station generated no further electricity but was maintained as standby capacity for the grid. In April 2014 the dismantling process at the site begun, being carried out by Brown and Mason Ltd; it is expected to take around 2 years to complete. On 10 May 2015, three buildings on the site were destroyed. Three of the five boiler houses were demolished by explosives on Sunday 2nd August 2015. The 244m-high chimney is yet to be demolished. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grain Power Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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