Industrial architecture/heritage. The former Marina ESB Power Station located on the banks of the River Lee at Cork City. Pic Larry Cummins 04.04.2024 (FROM ESB ARCHIVE - Marina sits in the heart of the Cork City Docklands on the River Lee. The station has gone through several different running regimes since it opened. Originally, it was designed and run as a coal and oil-fired station. With the discovery of natural gas off the southern coast of Cork in 1979, ESB took the strategic decision to convert the station to a combined cycle configuration by adding a gas turbine unit and a heat recovery boiler, boosting both the station’s capacity (to 96 MW). In 2009, the unit was converted to open cycle operation, with an output of 90MW. The station closed as an operating assset in September 2018- ESB ARCHIVES)