Ed Miliband has opened the way for a fleet of new gas-fired power stations to back up Britain’s wind and solar farms.

TotalEnergies SE is set to raise its worldwide flexible power generation capacity to seven gigawatts (GW) gross by acquiring the 1.3 GW West Burton B gas-fired power plant in Nottinghamshire, England.

6 May 2005 – The UK subsidiary of the German firm E.ON has purchased a 392 MW gas fired power station near London for approximately £109m ($207m).

Running hours of gas-fired power plants in the UK are at the lowest since at least 2017 as wind, solar and imports from Norway and France flood the grid. Skip to content.

West Burton Energy owns and operates the West Burton B gas-fired power plant in Nottinghamshire, in England. West Burton B comprises three combined-cycle gas turbines (CCGT) with total output of 1 ...

The Surgut-2 power station consists of six 800MW units commissioned between 1985 and 1988, and two advanced gas-fired combined cycle units with a combined capacity of 797.1MW commissioned in July ...

TotalEnergies SE agreed to buy a gas-fired power plant in the UK from EIG Global Energy Partners for an enterprise value of £450 million ($575 million) to complement its renewable energy assets ...

The smokestacks of the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station crumble in a planned demolition to make way for a new natural gas-fired power plant in Homer City, Pa., Saturday, March 22, 2025.