329:) to generate and supply electricity throughout the town. Electricity was first generated in the Bedford Power Station at Prebend Street Bridge Bedford on 6 December 1894. In 1897 the station generated 342.35 MWh and sold this to 325 customers with a total of 12,832 lamps and 352 public lamps. Electricity was sold at 6d. per kWh which provided an Income to the Corporation of £4718. This small station (19
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the intake and some warmed water was pumped to the cooling towers and used again for cooling. The cooling towers each has a capacity of 1.2 million gallons per hour (1.514 m/s). A survey in August and
September 1968 found that the river was 10.4 °C warmer downstream of Goldington power station than upstream due to the heat input from the station.
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In 1923 the (AC) generating plant comprised 2 × 275 kW and 1 × 500 kW reciprocating generators plus 1 × 1.0 MW and 2 × 1.5 MW turbo generators, these provided a 105 V and 210 V AC supply. The boilers had a combined evaporative capacity of 134,000 lb/hr (16.88 kg/s). The total
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Goldington was chosen because it was remote from built-up areas; was adjacent to a railway for the delivery of coal and the disposal of ash; and was close to an ample water source for cooling the plant.
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Bedford electricity district supplied an area of 200 square miles and a population of 117,000. The amount of electricity sold and the number and types of consumers was as follows:
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Water was abstracted from the river and used for steam condensing and cooling. There were four reinforced concrete cooling towers on the east of the station site.
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amount of electricity sold was 5.147 MWh (1921), 4.611 MWh (1922) and 4.664 MWh (1923). This generated a revenue of £72,708 (1922) and £60,440 (1923).
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commissioned the building of new generating plant. The
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956:Garcke's Manual of Electricity Supply (vol. 56)
743:. London: Electrical Press Ltd. pp. A-129.
725:. London: P. S. King and son. pp. 99–101.
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591:Electricity sold, MWh
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473:British Thomson-Houston
267:Nameplate capacity
253:British Thomson-Houston
104:Construction began
721:Garcke, Emile (1989).
319:Corporation of Bedford
242:Units operational
122:Decommission date
793:Bedfordshire Archives
757:. London: HMSO, 1947.
378:Station output, GWh
229:Power generation
113:Commission date
80:52.13750°N 0.42750°W
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1024:Categories
1008:1 February
899:31 January
869:31 January
838:31 January
799:31 January
708:References
427:Facilities
421:Goldington
200:18 hectare
71:00°25′39″W
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682:Cambridge
618:Combined
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261:6 × 30 MW
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168:Employees
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646:125,148
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602:71,387
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517:and on
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313:History
303:Bedford
171:240-250
50:Bedford
37:England
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