Battersea Power Station - Wikipedia. Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal- fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Nine Elms, Battersea, an inner- city district of South West London. It comprises two individual power stations, built in two stages in the form of a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1.

Battersea B Power Station to the east in the 1. The two stations were built to a nearly identical design, providing the long- recognized four- chimney layout. The station ceased generating electricity in 1.

London and is Grade II* listed.[1][2] The station's celebrity owes much to numerous popular culture references, which include the cover art of Pink Floyd's 1. Animals and its appearance in the 1. Beatles' film Help! The station is one of the largest brick buildings in the world[3] and is notable for its original, lavish Art Deco interior fittings and decor.[4] The building has remained largely unused since its closure, and the condition of the structure has been described as "very bad" by English Heritage, which included it in its Heritage at Risk Register.[5] The site was also listed on the 2. World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund.[6]Since the station's closure, numerous redevelopment plans were drawn up from successive site owners.

In 2. 00. 4, when a redevelopment project by Parkview International stalled, the site was sold to the administrators of Irish company Real Estate Opportunities (REO), who bought it for £4. November 2. 00. 6 with plans to refurbish the station for public use and build 3,4. This plan fell through due to REO's debt being called in by the state- owned banks of the UK and Ireland. The site was put up for sale in December 2. Knight Frank.[9][1. It has received interest from a variety of overseas consortia, most seeking to demolish or partly demolish the structure. The combination of an existing debt burden of some £7.

London Underground, requirements to fund conservation of the derelict power station shell, and the presence of a waste transfer station and cement plant on the river frontage made commercial development of the site a significant challenge.[1. In 2. 01. 2, administrators Ernst & Young entered into an exclusivity agreement with Malaysia's SP Setia and Sime Darby to develop the site.[1. The £4. 00 million sale was completed in September 2. Rafael Vinoly design, which had gained planning consent from Wandsworth Council in 2. In January 2. 01. Construction on Phase 1 was due to commence in 2. Apple will locate its new London headquarters at Battersea Power Station, becoming the largest office tenant with 1,4.

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History[edit]Until the late 1. These were small power companies that built power stations dedicated to a single industry or group of factories, and sold any excess electricity to the public. These companies used widely differing standards of voltage and frequency. In 1. 92. 5 Parliament decided that the power grid should be a single system with uniform standards and under public ownership. Several of the private power companies reacted to the proposal by forming the London Power Company. They planned to heed parliament's recommendations and build a small number of very large stations.[4]The London Power Company's first of these super power stations was planned for the Battersea area, on the south bank of the River Thames in London. The proposal was made in 1.

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MW) of electricity when complete.[4] The site chosen was a 1. Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company.[1. The site was chosen for its proximity to the River Thames for cooling water and coal delivery, and because it was in the heart of London, the station's immediate supply area.[2. The proposal sparked protests from those who felt that the building would be too large and would be an eyesore, as well as worries about the pollution damaging local buildings, parks and even paintings in the nearby Tate Gallery.

The company addressed the former concern by hiring Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to design the building's exterior. He was a noted architect and industrial designer, famous for his design of the red telephone box, and of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. He would go on to design another London power station, Bankside, which now houses Tate Modern art gallery.[4] The pollution issue was resolved by granting permission for the station on the condition that its emissions were to be treated, to ensure they were "clean and smokeless".[1. Construction of the first phase, the A Station, began in March 1. Watch Snowden 4Shared more.

The main building work was carried out by John Mowlem & Co,[2. Watch Le Voleur Invisible Dailymotion here. Sir William Arrol & Co.

Other contractors were employed for specialist tasks.[2. Most of the electrical equipment, including the steam turbineturbo generators, was produced by Metropolitan- Vickers in Trafford Park, Manchester.[4] The building of the steel frame began in October 1. Once completed, the construction of the brick cladding began, in March 1. Until the construction of the B Station, the eastern wall of the boiler house was clad in corrugated metal sheeting as a temporary enclosure.[2.

The A Station first generated electricity in 1. The total cost of its construction was £2,1. Between construction beginning in 1. After the end of the Second World War, construction began on the second phase, the B Station.

The station came into operation gradually between 1. It was nearly identical to the A Station from the outside and was constructed directly to its east as a mirror to it, which gave the power station its now familiar four- chimney layout. The construction of the B Station brought the site's generating capacity up to 5. MW), making it the third largest generating site in the UK at the time, providing a fifth of London's electricity needs (with the remainder supplied by 2. It was also the most thermally efficient power station in the world when it opened.[4]The A Station had been operated by the London Power Company, but by the time the B Station was completed, the UK's electric supply industry had been nationalised, and ownership of the two stations had passed into the hands of the British Electricity Authority in 1.

In 1. 95. 5, this became the Central Electricity Authority, which in turn became the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1. Watch Stuart Little Putlocker#. On 2. 0 April 1. 96. London, including at the BBC Television Centre, which was due to launch BBC Two that night. The launch was delayed until the following day at 1. Design and specification[edit]. Battersea power station was built in two phases.

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