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Portobello Power Station

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1930. Brown, Boveri and Co generator at the Portobello Power station, Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

1923 Station constructed by Edinburgh Corporation with an initial installation of three 12·5MW turbo-alternators and eight 80,000 lb per hour boilers

1926 a fourth 12·5 MW set was added

1927 Selected for use under the Central Scotland Electricity Scheme

1930 Two 31·25MW sets were added

1938 A 30MW set was added

Another, smaller set, transferred from an older station, raised the installed capacity to a total of 149MW.

It was then decided to dismantle the three 12·5MW sets and eight boilers and replaced them with two 60MW turbo-alternators and two boiler units which were installed in 1950.

c.1957 Capacity 272.5 MW

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