History
“Baglan Bay Power Station is a 525MWe gas-fired power station situated on Baglan Moors just west of Port Talbot in Wales. 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 TUPE 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.”
History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baglan_Bay_power_station
