Owned by InterGen, Coryton Power Station was built by Bechtel between 2000 and 2002, and cost £470 million.

It has two ABB Alstom GT26 gas turbines driving two electricity generators.

The station connects to the electricity National Grid at the nearby 400 kV Coryton South substation.

Gateway Energy Centre is a proposed 1250 MW gas-turbine power station to be located on the London Gateway Logistics Park about 1 km west of Coryton power station.

[2] In 2020 InterGen gained consent for a 640 MWh lithium-ion battery storage power station near the site, capable of delivering 320 MW for nearly 2 hours.