Marsden A

35°52′32″S 174°28′05″E / 35.875474°S 174.468041°E / -35.875474; 174.468041StatusDecommissionedConstruction began1964Commission date1967Decommission date1996Owner(s)Mighty River PowerThermal power station Primary fuelFuel oilPower generation Units operational2×Nameplate capacity250 MW

Marsden A was a 250 MW oil-fired power station near the Marsden Point Oil Refinery at Marsden Point, Ruakaka, Northland, New Zealand. It was built between 1964 and 1966 and commissioned in 1967.^[1] It acted as an emergency reserve power station, serving the load centre of Auckland to the south. It was cooled through a long seawater pipe out into Bream Bay, which is now used to supply an aquaculture industry nearby.

Following the commissioning of the dual coal- and gas-fired Huntly power station in 1982, Marsden A became less used, and it was mothballed in the 1990s due to rising oil prices. One of the generators was subsequently run as a synchronous condenser to provide reactive power support to Transpower's national grid in Northland, but were decommissioned in 2007 when they were superseded by solid-state power support devices within Transpower's network.

The facility was previously owned and operated by Mighty River Power.

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