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About Taylor's Lane
Taylor's Lane is an oil-fired peaking plant at Willesden in north-west London. It was commissioned in 1979. Its open-cycle gas turbines burn gas oil and start quickly to cover peaks in demand.
Its 144 MW of registered generating capacity is spread across 2 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 | 144 MW |
| Commissioned | 1979 (DUKES 5.11) |
| Area | London |
| Location | At Willesden in north-west London 51.546° N, 0.257° W |
| Owner or operator | Uniper |
| Elexon lead party | Uniper UK Limited |
| BM units | E_TAYL2G 72 MW, E_TAYL3G 72 MW |
| Size | The largest of the 4 oil-fired peaking plants on GridMonkey's list |
Other oil-fired peaking plants
- Cowes 140 MW, Isle of Wight
- Indian Queens 140 MW, Cornwall
- 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 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.