West Burton

Yorkshire · Gas / Coal · Mixed site

Lifecycle

Mixed site

Declared output

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Registered capacity (unverified physical)

1.45 GW

Declared utilisation

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Physical capacity is not verified for all units. Utilisation and capacity-based outage ratios are unavailable; registry values are retained as reference.

Output history

Reported availability

REMIT unavailability affecting this station over the last 12 months.

Unit lifecycle and sources

Effective-dated status is applied before station capacity and technology are calculated.

BM unit	Technology	Registered capacity	Current lifecycle
WBUGT-1	Gas	22 MW	Unverified
WBUGT-4	Gas	21 MW	Unverified
WBUPS-1	Coal	484 MW	Retired from 1 Apr 2023
WBUPS-2	Coal	504 MW	Retired from 1 Apr 2023
WBUPS-3	Coal	503 MW	Retired from 1 Apr 2023
WBUPS-4	Coal	489 MW	Retired from 1 Apr 2023
WBURB-1	Gas	470 MW	Unverified
WBURB-2	Gas	470 MW	Unverified
WBURB-3	Gas	470 MW	Unverified

Sourced events

1 Apr 2023 · WBUPS-1, WBUPS-2, WBUPS-3, WBUPS-4
EDF confirms West Burton A closed at midnight on 31 March 2023. Applied from 1 April, after the final day. This bounds the coal units; earlier individual cessation dates are not established. West Burton B and auxiliary gas turbines are excluded.
Source date: 2023-04-03 · Reviewed: 2026-09-13
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Physical capacity evidence

Physical capacity evidence is incomplete. Registered totals are not verified installed capacity.

Whole-site registered total: 3432.6 MW, including retired units.

Registered capacity is the value retained in the committed BM-unit source snapshot. “Not retained” means the registry no longer supplied a positive figure; it does not mean the unit historically had no capacity. If a unit with a retirement event publishes a non-zero live declaration, the live declaration keeps it in the operating fleet pending review.

About this asset

West Burton is a mixed gas / coal site in Yorkshire. It has 5 non-retired (5 unverified) and 4 retired mapped Balancing Mechanism units, with 1.45 GW on the displayed capacity basis.

Published site coordinate.

Current output is the operator’s declared Physical Notification. Metered output is published later and is shown as the solid portion of the history chart; outage shading comes from REMIT notices.