Alumina is still imported and moved by rail to a smelter powered by the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme, near Fort William on the west coast of Scotland.

In 1883, the Coal Company gave a list of the property it owned, or leased: In December 2020, Cambois was confirmed as the location for a new Britishvolt battery manufacturing plant.

[4] In July 2021, plans for the £2.6bn gigafactory employing 3,000 people were approved, with the new plant to be located on former coalyards adjacent to the now-demolished power station in Cambois.

[8] However, construction work was halted in August 2022 amid funding concerns,[9] with manufacturing now set to start in mid-2025, more than a year later than initially planned.

[11][12] Some 15 months later, the site was acquired for construction of a data centre,[13][14] ending hopes for thousands of manufacturing jobs in the region.