The facility lies north of the Lindsey Oil Refinery, and adjacent to Killingholme B power station.

Three heat recovery steam generators were built by International Combustion at Derby (owned by NEI), costing £20 million.

[8] The site was officially opened on Thursday 8 October 1993 by the National Power chairman, and the chief executive John Baker, with Tony Bethell.

[13] The plant opened in 1994 and was operated by National Power until 2000 when it was bought by NRG Energy for £390 million.

It was then purchased in 2003 by a consortium of twenty banks when NRG got into financial difficulty[14] and was then bought by Centrica in July 2004 for £142 million.