It was installed in 1998 by Yorkshire Cogen Ltd (was part of Yorkshire Electricity and bought by Powergen in 1999, which became E.ON in 2004) and is run by E.ON UK CHP Ltd.
On 10 April 2007, eleven environmental activists from a group called Eastside Climate Action were arrested after they entered the power station and climbed onto equipment in order to draw attention to greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power stations, when E.ON UK were proposing to build more.