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About Indian Queens
Indian Queens is an oil-fired peaking plant near St Dennis in Cornwall. It was commissioned in 1996. Its open-cycle gas turbine burns gas oil and starts quickly to cover peaks in demand.
Its 140 MW of registered generating capacity is spread across one balancing mechanism unit. 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 | 140 MW |
| Commissioned | 1996 (DUKES 5.11) |
| Area | Cornwall |
| Location | Near St Dennis in Cornwall 50.396° N, 4.900° W |
| Owner or operator | Triton Power |
| Elexon lead party | Indian Queens Power Ltd |
| BM unit | T_INDQ-1 140 MW |
| Size | 3rd 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
- Didcot OCGT 100 MW, Oxfordshire
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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: 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. Map position: © OpenStreetMap contributors.