Technicians checking operations at Barry Power Station owned by Centrica.
The power station was opened in September 1998, and bought by Centrica in July 2003 for £ it runs as a baseload station. The closure of the plant was proposed in Centrica's accounts in February 2012, but the following month a contract was signed to use it to supply peak required a reconfiguration to allow full load to be reached more quickly, and redundancy for a third of the workforce. It is now run in an open-cycle mode, halving operating costs, with the option of switching to combined-cycle mode after an hour. Centrica now own and run eight gas-fired power stations in England and Wales, with a combined output of
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Location: Centrica, Sully Moors Road, Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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