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Power stations in Yorkshire and the Humber

11 power stations with a combined 7,283 MW of installed capacity, from the UK government's register of power stations (DESNZ, DUKES table 5.11) and Octary's own records. Open any station for its capacity, operator, location map, nearby stations and source.

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StationTypeCapacityStageRegionOperator
Drax Power Station Biomass Units Biomass power station 2,580 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber Drax Group
EP SHB LTD CCGT gas power station 1,365 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber EPUKi
VPI CCGT gas power station 1,252 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber Vitol
Saltend Power Station Gas-fired power station 1,200 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber Energy Capital Partners
Killingholme Open-cycle gas power station 600 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber Uniper UK
FM1 Energy-from-waste plant 79 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber Co-owned by SSE Group and Wheelabrator Technologies Inc
FM2 Energy-from-waste plant 79 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber Co-owned by SSE Group and Wheelabrator Technologies Inc
Grimsby Open-cycle gas power station 40 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber RWE Npower
Thornhill Open-cycle gas power station 40 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber River Nene
Blackburn Meadows Biomass power station 34 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber E.ON
EPR Glanford Ltd Biomass power station 14 MW Operating Yorkshire and the Humber EPR
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Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) table 5.11, plus Octary's records of legacy and decommissioned sites. Capacities are installed capacity, not live output. For hand-written histories and engineering diagrams of the UK's major stations, see the power stations atlas.