Staythorpe Power Stations
Two power stations built on a site between Southwell and Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire
1946 Construction of the first station began. [1]
1950 Staythorpe A power station was a coal-fired station commissioned by the CEGB in July 1950; the first of its six 60MW British Thomson-Houston turbo-alternators was commissioned in March 1950. (A correspondent who worked there in the 1980s remembers it as having six sets of 60 MW air-cooled so the eventual total was indeed 360 MW)
1962 Staythorpe B power station was a coal-fired station commissioned by the CEGB in May 1962; it had a generating capacity of 354 MW
1983 Staythorpe A was closed on 31 October 1983.
1994 Staythorpe B closed.
There is still a large substation next to the site of the former power stations, and a monument[2].
Staythorpe C Power Station was built on the site of two former power stations. It is a 1,735 MWe gas-fired power station between the River Trent and the Nottingham to Lincoln railway line. The station was built by Alstom Power and handed over to the owner RWE npower with full commercial operation being achieved in December 2010. It is the second largest Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power station in the UK and has an overall efficiency in excess of 58%. The plant cost £680 million.
2011 The official opening ceremony was attended by Charles Hendry, Minister of State and took place on 9 May 2011.