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Report - Baglan Bay Power Station - Port Talbot - South Wales - July 2023

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Lenston

Bajo Tierra
Regular User
Looked at this one a couple of times in the past and decided to make a visit before the place is completely trashed.

The turbine is still in situ but with a few reported fires this year I'm not sure how long this place has left, the control room was completely destroyed earlier in the year by fire unfortunately, see the last image :(

History

The power station was built on the site of the former Isopropanol BP chemicals plant in September 2003, costing £300 million. At the time of its development, it was considered the most advanced CCGT facility of its kind with close to 60% efficiency. It was built by the GE Energy division of General Electric, who later rebranded to GE Power then GE Gas Power. It was sold by GE in October 2012 to a group of financial investors, led by Macquarie Group. After the sale, GE continued to operate the power station under an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract until 2019 when staff at the power plant were transferred to Calon Energy.

In June 2020 the Baglan Group entered administration and in July 2020 the power station ceased generating electricity. Power was supplied to the Baglan Energy Park which is home to a large number of other businesses and organisations via the power stations connection to the National Grid. From August 2022, the private wire network is no longer in use and the businesses on the energy park have made arrangements for their own independent power supply.

It is a CCGT-type power station that runs on natural gas. It has one General Electric 50Hz H-class system (9H) gas turbine which achieves a firing temperature well above 2,600F linked on a single-shaft to a heat recovery steam generator and a GE steam turbine. It has black start capability, using a 33MWe GE LM2500 gas turbine. It connects to the National Grid at 275kV. It is 60% thermally efficient.

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Cheers
 
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Terminal Decline

28DL Regular User
Regular User
Great to see one of our newer stations, something seldom investigated. Though it's unfortunate the current trend is to stick the interesting stuff in those sound-proof boxes!
 

KPUrban_

Surprisingly Unsurprising
Regular User
Really nice to see a proper selection of photos from here, it's quite photogenic in some areas.

A little bit of hope now the coal stations have dwindled.

The GE signage is a bit nice.
 
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Fido Dido's Cousin

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Visited this yesterday as it's on my local, wee dog walk and we thought we'd have a nose. I got a bunch of photos but probs just shit phone-tier stuff.

Quite a mad spot, still lots of good stuff left about (mainly in the office, par a lot of fire damage) and much more vast than I imagined.

If anyone visits be careful of gypsies, as there were a lot about yesterday and they have been in to rip apart the place since it got closed down. Much like Wern Works, there is a site not too far from this gaff.
 

DanMoist

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
I took another look yesterday. Contractors are on site 7 days a week ripping down metal work with mechanical jaws. There's a security caravan parked near the entrance of the site. I didn't have my drone but I think they've chopped the stairs off the main external staircase so not a lot left to access there now.
 

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