[3] The Station directly employed approx forty full-time with additional contract and part-time staff.

The Station further supports employment in the Semi State Bord na Móna which supplied West Offaly with milled peat from the surrounding bogs.

As part of its social employment mandate, the station received Public service obligation support until 2019.

[citation needed] On 11 December 2020 the station ceased all power production after permission to continue burning peat was refused.

[5] A hybrid 97 MW / 170 MWh synchronous condenser / battery storage power station grid stability plant started construction at the site in 2022, expected to complete by 2024 a cost of €130 million.