Accrington Electricity Works
1913 1000 HP gas engines driving alternators installed by National Gas Engine Co and Bruce Peebles and Co Ltd - see photo
1928 Selected under the North-West England and North Wales Electricity Scheme
1948 A new generating station was to be constructed by the British Electricity Authority at Huncoat, Accrington, with ultimate capacity of 120,000kW. The initial equipment would be will be two 30,000kW turbo-alternators, generating at llkV, stepped up to 33 kV through machine transformers. There will be three pulverised fuel boilers. The principal consulting engineers are Messrs. Kennedy and Donkin; Mouchel and Partners, Ltd., were responsible to them for civil engineering works.
1952 The new power station commissioned and the old one closed down - see Huncoat Power Station