Halifax Power Station
1892 Halifax Corporation applied for a Provisional Order under the Electric Lighting Acts to generate and supply electricity to the town.
1893 The Halifax municipal refuse destructor was the first such plant in Britain to generate electricity from refuse.
1894 The power station was built in Foundry Street Halifax and first supplied electricity in December 1894.
1898 the generating capacity was 600 kW and the maximum load was 295 kW. Subsequently the equipment was modernised and enlarged.
1923 A further 10MW Curtis turbo-generator was supplied by BTH
1929 The power station was selected for the Mid-East England Electricity Scheme[1]
1939 'An order for a 20,000 kilowatt Brush-Ljungstrom turbo-alternator costing approximately £70,000 has been secured the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Loughbrough, from the Halifax Corporation. Work has already begun on the construction of this machine. It has been specially designed for the Corporation’s power station extensions to the order of Mr. G. A. Vowles, engineer and manager, and will be installed there for augmenting the electricity generation supply at a rate of anything up to 400,000 units day, or sufficient to supply 292,000 domestic consumers. Industrial and other large scale users would, of course, absorb most of the output.' [2]
1948 nationalisation of the electricity industry
Late 1960s: the power station was decommissioned
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia