It was redeveloped as demand for electricity grew and old plant was replaced, and had an ultimate generating capacity of 8 MW in the 1920s.

[1] The Corporation built a 200 kW power station[2] in Aqueduct Street, Burnley (53°47'12"N 2°14'21"W) across the River Calder from the town's gas works, adjacent to the Burnley Embankment on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal,[3] It first supplied electricity to the town in September 1893.

In 1911 the Burnley electricity committee planned to expand the station with a 1,200 kW steam turbine with tandem generators, the projected cost was £8,129.

The original plant at Burnley power station comprised Horizontal compound condensing engines coupled by ropes to Elwell-Parker dynamos.

[9] In the year 1946 Burnley power station supplied 1,585 MWh of electricity, the maximum load was 6,479 kW.