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Richborough power station was a power station close to the mouth of the River Stour near Sandwich, on the east coast of Kent. It operated from 1962 to 1996; the towers were demolished in 2012. It was built on land within the Port of Richborough but being on the northern edge its site lies mostly within the neighbouring parish of Minster, Kent. BFL Management Ltd, the current owners of the site plan to bring it back into use as the £750 million Richborough Energy Park. ==History== The power station was built by the Central Electricity Generating Board in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and entered service in 1962 as a 342MW coal-fired station, using coal from Kent and other coalfields 〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Hansard HC Deb 18 March 1963 vol 674 cc16-7W )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Hansard HC Deb 16 February 1959 vol 600 c1W )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Hansard HC Deb 09 January 1996 vol 269 c63W )〕 It was converted to burn oil in 1971,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Hansard HC Deb 08 February 1972 vol 830 cc1143-270 )〕 and further converted in 1989 to burn a proprietary oil and water emulsion called Orimulsion, imported from Venezuela through Port Richborough.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 The site was also chosen as the site for an experimental 1MW wind turbine, which was at that time the largest ever installed in the UK,〔 with permission given in 1987, and the turbine becoming live in 1989.〔 After growing concerns over the environmental effects of the Orimulsion fuel in the main power station,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work= Hansard HC Deb 06 July 1992 vol 211 cc78-9W )〕 court action was taken in two separate actions,〔(【引用サイトリンク】)"> work=Hansard HL Deb 20 March 1995 vol 562 cc1016-81 )〕 with both cases settled out of court.〔 the 360MW station ceased generating in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=38498 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=11 March 2012 )〕 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「Richborough Power Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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