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5 unusual facts about Staythorpe Power Station


Staythorpe Power Station

The £680 million plant near Averham was formally opened on 9 May 2011 and is owned by the German energy company, RWE npower.

It is situated around one mile from Newark, between the villages of Averham, to the north, and Farndon, to the south with the address Staythorpe Road, Staythorpe, NG23 5PS.

The GMB and Unite trade unions demonstrated at the station when Alstom recruited non-UK contract labour to build the power station.

Staythorpe C Power Station is a 1,735 MWe gas-fired power station between Southwell and Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, between the River Trent and Nottingham to Lincoln Line.

Thomas Cecil Howitt

Staythorpe 'A' Power Station, near Newark, Notts (from 1946) - awarded RIBA Bronze Medal 1953, now demolished



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