Waterport Power Station is decommissioned
17th December 2020
The Waterport power station has formally decommissioned and will never again generate power for Gibraltar, the Gibraltar Government said on Thursday, as it signalled a move to “cleaner and more efficient energy production” at the new LNG North Mole power station.
The power plant was decommissioned after supplying electricity to Gibraltar for nearly four decades.
The construction of Waterport Power Station commenced in 1981 after contracts were exchanged between the then City Electrical Engineer Victor Bensadon and Hawker Siddeley Power Engineering for the installation of diesel engine powered generating sets with a total capacity of 15MWs, which was enough to meet Gibraltar’s power demand at the time.