Medway Power Station
Medway Power Station is a 735 megawatts gas-fired combined cycle gas turbine power station on the Isle of Grain in Kent adjacent to the River Medway, about 44 miles east of London. It started to supply electricity to the national grid in 1995.Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grain Fort and Grain LNG Terminal.
Grain Fort
Fort
Grain Fort is a former artillery fort located just east of the village of Grain, Kent. It was constructed in the 1860s to defend the confluence of the Rivers Medway and Thames during a period of tension with France. Grain Fort is situated 1½ miles northeast of Medway Power Station.
Grain LNG Terminal
Grain LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Isle of Grain, 37 miles east of London. It has facilities for the offloading and reloading of LNG from ships at two jetties on the River Medway; for storing and blending LNG; for truck loading; and regasifying and blending natural gas to meet UK specifications. Grain LNG Terminal is situated 3,900 feet north of Medway Power Station.Dummy Battery
Fort
Photo: Phillip Perry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dummy Battery, originally known as Grain Battery, is a disused fortified gun battery located about 1 kilometre south of the village of Grain, Kent at the confluence of the Rivers Thames and Medway. Dummy Battery is situated 1½ miles east of Medway Power Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blue Town and Sheerness.
Blue Town
Suburb
Blue Town is a suburb of the town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. It sits on the A249 Brielle Way which runs from Queenborough to Sheerness. Blue Town is situated 2½ miles east of Medway Power Station.
Sheerness
Town
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sheerness is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town of Minster which has a population of 16,738. Sheerness is situated 3 miles east of Medway Power Station.
Rushenden
Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rushenden is a village on the Isle of Sheppey in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England, of approximately 500 dwellings. It lies to the south of Queenborough. Rushenden is situated 3 miles southeast of Medway Power Station.
Medway Power Station
- Type: Power station
- Description: Gas-fired power station
- Categories: natural gas-fired power station and industry
- Location: Isle of Grain, Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4403° or 51° 26′ 25″ northLongitude
0.69015° or 0° 41′ 25″ eastInception
1995Operator
SSE ThermalOpen location code
9F32CMRR+43OpenStreetMap ID
way 150780483OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q3430521
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In Other Languages
From German to Russian—“Medway Power Station” goes by many names.
- German: “Kraftwerk Medway”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Medway gasskraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Medway gasskraftverk”
- Russian: “Медуэйская электростанция”
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