Learning about Shoreham power station

 

I learned a few new things reading about Shoreham power station. I taught about coal-fired power stations for over two decades. You burn coal to heat water to make steam to turn turbines. But in this gas-powered station, the gas is burned directly inside the turbine. It's a combustion turbine. This leaves hot exhaust gases and it is these that are used to heat water to make steam to turn another turbine using a heat recovery steam generator.