Combined heat and power

The 210 MW Shotton Combined Heat and Power station, located in Deeside, North Wales, was built for TXU Europe and completed in 2002. The company soon went into receivership and the plant was sold in October 2003 to Gaz de France which operated the station under sister company Cofathec Heatsave. The plant used General Electric 6FA gas turbines. Power was exported to the National Grid and the station also supplied steam to UPM Kymmene UK's paper mill at Shotton. In a typical year around half a million tonnes of steam was supplied to the paper mill.

In March 2012 GDF SUEZ Energy International announced that the station was no longer economic and would be closed by the end of the year. It was demolished in 2014.