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About Didcot OCGT
Didcot OCGT is an oil-fired peaking plant near Didcot in Oxfordshire. It was commissioned in 1972. Its open-cycle gas turbines, next to Didcot B, burn gas oil and start quickly to cover peaks in demand.
Its 100 MW of registered generating capacity is spread across 4 balancing mechanism units. Every half hour each unit tells the grid how much it will generate (its physical notification): that is the live figure above, and GridMonkey records it every half hour for the chart.
Oil-fired peaking plants are gas turbines that burn gas oil, a fuel much like diesel. They start in minutes but cost a lot to run, so they run only in short bursts at peaks or when the grid is short of power, and most of the time show zero.
| Type | Oil-fired gas turbines (OCGT) |
|---|---|
| Registered capacity | 100 MW |
| Commissioned | 1972 (DUKES 5.11) |
| Area | Oxfordshire |
| Location | Near Didcot in Oxfordshire 51.625° N, 1.270° W |
| Owner or operator | RWE |
| Elexon lead party | RWE Generation UK plc |
| BM units | E_DIDC1G 25 MW, E_DIDC2G 25 MW, E_DIDC3G 25 MW, E_DIDC4G 25 MW |
| Size | 4th largest of the 4 oil-fired peaking plants on GridMonkey's list |
Other oil-fired peaking plants
- Taylor's Lane 144 MW, London
- Cowes 140 MW, Isle of Wight
- Indian Queens 140 MW, Cornwall
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Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026 (licence). Station names, areas and owners or operators come from GridMonkey's own table, matched to the units in Elexon's register; a station's output here is its physical notification, not metered generation. Year commissioned and location: Power stations in the United Kingdom (DUKES 5.11) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, May 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.