Coryton Power Station
Coryton Power Station is a 732 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) gas-fired power station at Coryton, Thurrock, Essex, UK. History The site was part of the Coryton Refinery before its closure in 2012. Owned by Intergen, Coryton Power Station was built by Bechtel between 2000 and 2002, and cost £470 million. It was commissioned in 2002 and is run by Coryton Energy Ltd. In January 2023, the power station was purchased by the Czech Creditas investment group from InterGen. Specification It is a CCGT type power station that uses natural gas. Gas is supplied to the site through a 7 km underground pipeline from an off-take from the National Grid Gas National Transmission System south of Stanford-le-Hope. It has two ABB Alstom GT26 gas turbines driving two electricity generators. Gas turbine exhaust gas is led to two heat recovery steam generators. These power one steam turbine, connected to a further generator. The station connects to the electricity National Grid at the nearby 400 kV Coryton South substation. Gateway Energy Centre Gateway Energy Centre is a proposed 1250 MW gas-turbine power station to be located on the London Gateway Logistics Park about 1 km west of Coryton power station. It