Berwick-upon-Tweed Power Station

Berwick-upon-Tweed Power Station
Location of Berwick-upon-Tweed Power Station in Northumberland
Country	England
Location	Berwick-upon-Tweed
Coordinates	55°46′00″N 2°00′17″W / 55.766743°N 2.004755°W / 55.766743; -2.004755Coordinates: 55°46′00″N 2°00′17″W / 55.766743°N 2.004755°W / 55.766743; -2.004755
Commission date	1930s
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Coal-fired
grid reference NT998526

Berwick Power Station was a small coal-fired power station situated at the mouth of the River Tweed, at Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland, North East England.

The station was constructed in the 1930s to generate electricity for the town. The station's main building, which consisted of a boiler house and turbine hall, stood at two stories tall. The station was designed to fit in with the town walls, and so constructed in stone. The main building was a triple gabled building, with irregular windows.^[1] It had frontage onto the river for easy access to condensing water and coal delivery.

After ceasing to generate electricity, the generating equipment was removed and the building was used as a storehouse. The building was eventually demolished in the late 1990s.^[1]

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Electricity generation in North East England
Generating sites	Biomass Active Biomass Energy Centre Lynemouth (co-fires) Wilton 10 Proposed BEI-Teesside Billingham North Blyth Teesport Tyne REP Coal Active Lynemouth Closed Berwick upon Tweed Blyth Carville Chopwell Colliery Close Consett Darlington Derwenthaugh Coke Works Dunston Forth Banks Hebburn Horden Colliery Lemington Mainsforth Colliery Manors Morrison Busty Colliery Neptune Bank Newburn Steelworks North Tees Ouston Colliery Pandon Dene Philadelphia South Shore Road South Shields Stella Sunderland Vane Tempest Colliery Whinfield Proposed Eston Grange (Gasification) Cancelled Blyth Clean Coal Kepier Gas Active Seal Sands Teesside Wilton Proposed ConocoPhillips Teesside Thor Cogeneration Cancelled Newburn Hydro Active Derwent Kielder Closed Cragside Nuclear Active Hartlepool Cancelled Druridge Bay Oil Active Wilton Waste Active Teesside Path Head landfill Closed Blaydon Burn Derwenthaugh Coke Works Newburn Steelworks Portrack Whinfield Proposed North Eastern Energy Recovery Centre Wilton 11 Cancelled Blyth Wind Active Blyth Harbour Blyth Offshore Broom Hill Great Eppleton Hare Hill High Sharpley High Volts Holmside Hall Kirkheaton Langley Park Teesside Tow Law Trimdon Grange Walkway West Durham Proposed Butterwick Moor Haswell Moor Kiln Pit Hill Lynemouth Royal Oak Barmoor South Green Rigg Kielder Moorsyde Ray Hill South Sharpley Steadings Teeswind North The Isles Todd Hill West Ancroft Wingates
Organisations and personnel	A. Reyrolle & Company C. A. Parsons and Company Northern Powergrid Charles Algernon Parsons Charles Hesterman Merz Clarke Chapman John Theodore Merz L J Couves & Partners Merz & McLellan NaREC Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company North Eastern Electric Supply Company Northern Electric Northern Engineering Industries Pre-nationalisation North East electric power companies
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