Fife Power Station closed in March 2011.

Fife Power Station was a 120 megawatt gas

Gas

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 fired combined cycle

Combined cycle

In electric power generation a combined cycle is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem off the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy, which in turn usually drives electrical generators...

 gas turbine

Gas turbine

A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of internal combustion engine. It has an upstream rotating compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in-between....

 generating station at Cardenden

Cardenden

Cardenden is a Scottish town located on the South bank of the River Ore in the parish of Auchterderran, Fife. It is approximately North-West of Kirkcaldy. Cardenden was named in 1848 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway for its new railway station...

 in Fife

Fife

Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...

, Scotland

Scotland

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It was a 1+1 configuration module built around a 74 MW General Electric

General Electric

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 Frame 6F gas turbine providing for a combined cycle output of 109MW, exhaust duct firing is employed to reach the stations maximum output.

It was purchased in 2004 by Scottish and Southern Energy plc [SSE] for £12.3 million and thus securing the future of the 10 staff that work there at that time.

Investigations took place in 2007 into the feasibility of burning used car tyres in Fife, environmental legislations precluded this however.