Documenting the decline of coal and oil fired electricity generation in the UK
Longannet Power Station
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Longannet was a 2,400 MW power station on the north bank of the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The stations four units were commissioned around 1972 and the power station closed in 2016.
The turbine hall at Longannet housed four cross-compound generating units arranged in eight turbine lines. Each English Electric / GEC unit had a total capacity of 600 MW.