[4] In 1959, the Spondon H process steam station opened alongside Spondon A. Spondon H had a capacity of 30 MW using three 10 MW sets, and was unique among the CEGBs power stations as it was designed primarily to produce steam to supply the British Celanese plant after passing through the back-pressure steam turbines.

The station also had four concrete cooling towers of 45 m (150 ft) in height located 0.25 miles to the east, these were in practice rarely used.

[6][7][8][9][10][11] Derwent power station was originally built for Courtaulds Chemicals and was opened on 1 June 1995 by Tim Eggar, the Energy Secretary.

Only around 50MWe is put into the National Grid; and the heat produces steam for the textile plant.

In 2018, Peel Environmental purchased the mothballed station in the hope of recommencing power generation at the site.

[16] However, these plans did not go ahead, and the station is due to be demolished in 2021 as it is "no longer commercially viable".