Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,701 pages of information and 247,104 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire
1963 Construction started for the CEGB
1967 The first of 4 500MW units came on stream
Acquired by PowerGen during privatisation of the electricity industry
2002 PowerGen was taken over by E.ON
Acquired by Uniper
2024 This was the UK's last remaining coal-fired power station, it is due to shut at the end of September 2024.
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