History
Wilton Power Station has been generating electricity and providing steam to the plants on the Wilton International complex since March 1952. A secondary turbine commissioned at the station in November 1951 is still operating there today. For a long time the station was operated by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), but they sold the station to American company Enron in November 1998. In early 2002 Enron went bankrupt, and the station was sold to SembCorp.
The station has been approved as a "Good quality" combined heat and power plant under the Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance registration scheme. This means that despite burning fossil fuels like coal and oil, the station is exempt from the Climate Change Levy, a tax which otherwise would have been put on the fuels supplied to the station and the electricity generated by it.
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