Energy industry Yorkshire coal plant to close with loss of 130 jobs Eggborough’s failure to get capacity market contract proved final straw for power station The coal-fired Eggborough power station in North Yorkshire is to close as it is no longer economically viable. Photograph: John Giles/PAA major coal power station in Yorkshire will close at the end of September after it failed to secure a government subsidy to provide backup power next winter. The plant is run by Czech power firm EPH, which bought two of British Gas owner Centrica’s large gas plants last year, and also owns an old power coal plant in Northumberland which it is converting to burn wood. The government, which has committed to phasing out coal by 2025 to cut carbon emissions, had predicted at least one coal power station would shut this year. Three quarters of those winners were for gas plants, including big-six firm SSE’s Peterhead, which is Scotland’s last fossil fuel power station.

Source: The Guardian February 02, 2018 10:26 UTC