The B station provided enough electricity to power roughly half a million homes.

The station took coal directly from the neighbouring Lea Hall Colliery by conveyor belt.

The colliery was put into production some 6 months before the first generating unit was commissioned in the power station.

The station was officially opened on 1 October 1963 by Lord Robens of Woldingham and Sir Christopher Hinton.

[4] The two stations were initially operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board, but following privatisation in 1990, were handed over to National Power.

The Lea Hall colliery was closed on 24 January 1991, meaning all coal burned in the stations needed to be delivered by rail.

Rail facilities included a west-facing junction on the Rugeley line, A and B sidings, gross-weight and tare-weight weighbridges, a hopper house, an oil siding, a hopper bypass line and a run-round loop.

[13] In July 1996 the Rugeley B power station was bought by Eastern Generation, itself acquired by TXU Europe.

This allowed the station to comply with environmental legislation in force at the time and continue generating electricity.

In March 2012 Rugeley Power Ltd announced it would be considering a conversion to run using biomass fuel.

[4] The Rugeley B station used two 500 MW generating sets, which could produce 8,760,000 MWh each year.

A total of 6 blowdown demolitions took place for the removal of the turbine hall and boiler house in several phases between November 2019 and August 2020.