Taylor's Lane Power Station is an open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) station, situated in Willesden

Willesden

Willesden is an area in North West London which forms part of the London Borough of Brent. It is situated 5 miles north west of Charing Cross...

, north-west London.

History

The first, coal-fired, station was built in 1903 by Willesden Urban District Council and sold to the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co. (Northmet) in 1904. Capacity rose from 300 KW in 1903 to 28.6 MW in 1937. This station closed in 1972.

The current station was opened in 1979 by the Central Electricity Generating Board. It is now operated by E.On

E.ON

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. It is operated remotely from Grain Power Station

Grain Power Station

Grain Power Station is an oil-fired and CCGT power station in Kent, England with operational capacity of 1,320MW owned by E.ON UK.-History:Grain was built on a site for the nationalised Central Electricity Generating Board. It was built by the Cleveland Bridge Company beginning in 1975. It opened...

 and has two units fired on gas-oil with a capacity of 132 MW.

In 2011, in the Lost episode of series 14 of the BBC

BBC

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 thriller Silent Witness

Silent Witness

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, a body is found in a lane beside the power station.