Ferrybridge power stations

The Ferrybridge power stations were a series of three coal-fired power stations on the River Aire near Ferrybridge in West Yorkshire, England, in operation from 1927 to 2016 on a site next to the junction of the M62 and A1 motorways.

The first station, Ferrybridge A, was constructed in the mid-1920s and closed in 1976. Ferrybridge B was brought into operation in the 1950s and closed in the early 1990s. In 1966, Ferrybridge C power station was opened with a generating capacity of 2 GW from four 500 MW sets; constructed by the Central Electricity Generating Board ; on privatisation in 1989 ownership was passed to Powergen, then to Edison Mission Energy , then to AEP Energy Services and to SSE plc . Ferrybridge C closed in March 2016.

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