Power station given green light

A NEW power station is to be built in Yorkshire, the Government has confirmed.

Powerfuel Power, headed by former UK Coal boss Richard Budge, has been given permission for the plant on a site close to Hatfield Colliery in Doncaster.

It will be one of three power stations built with the aim of providing up to four million homes with energy.

The other sites earmarked for the projects are in Pembroke, west Wales, and King’s Lynn, Norfolk.

Energy and Climate Change minister, Mike O’Brien, said: “Investment like this in the energy sector will create new engineering and construction jobs.

“These power stations will generate energy for four million homes for decades to come.”

Powerfuel Power plans to construct an integrated coal gasification gas-fired power station in Hatfield.

The station will see coal heated to high temperatures, producing gas which will then be used to generate electricity in a system which is claimed to produce fewer emissions.

However, upon launch the station is expected to run a more traditional gas fed system.

It is expected that the first phase of construction at the site will begin in June with the environmentally friendly technology introduced by 2014.