Great Yarmouth Power Station

Great Yarmouth Power Station is combined cycle gas turbine power station on South Denes Road in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England, with a maximum output of 420 MW electricity, opened in 2001.

Great Yarmouth's first power station which used coal was built in 1894 and demolished in 1961 together with its iconic large chimney.

The electricity output in the final years was: Before demolition a second much larger plant, built on the South Denes, had opened in September 1958.

[4][5] This plant produced power until it was first scheduled to close in 1984 before briefly being used again during the UK miners' strike (1984–1985) (see graph) after which it again remained unused until 1994 when demolition began.

On 5 May 1997 the main building and its chimney were demolished via a controlled explosion watched by thousands of people from the roads on the other side of the River Yare.

The steam condenser uses about 9 tonnes of water a second[citation needed] drawn from the River Yare and discharged out to sea.