Peterborough Power Station is a 360MW gas-fired power station at Eastern Industry, Fengate in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. It employs around forty people.
The power station was commissioned in December 1993 with construction starting in January 1991. It is currently owned by Whitetower Holdings UK Limited, an affiliate of Rockland Capital, LP after a £20M agreement was made with Centrica Energy officially owned by Centrica PB Ltd.[1] Peterborough Power Ltd, the station's original operating name, was bought by Centrica Plc from Dallas-based TXU Corp. in October 2001.[2] Centrica was created in 1997 when British Gas Plc demerged into Centrica Plc and BG Group Plc; it owns the rights to the British Gas name for use in the domestic market.
A previous coal-fired power station in Peterborough was located on the north side of the river, on the site of what is now the Rivergate shopping centre. Demolished in the mid 1980s, all that remains is its substation on the other side of the river, directly south from the power station's former site.
- ^ Electricity Generation Licence granted under the Electricity Act 1989 s.6(l)(a), Gas and Electricity Markets Authority, 18 October 2001
- ^ Electricity Generation Licence Scheme made pursuant to para.18 of sch.7 to the Utilities Act 2000, Gas and Electricity Markets Authority, 28 September 2001 and Notice of revocation of licence Gas and Electricity Markets Authority, 23 May 2005