These included the following (with the original owner, construction and purchase dates):[3][2] During the First World War the two major undertakings in the Midlands, the Shropshire Company and the Birmingham Corporation, proposed to build two large power stations to meet their joint needs.
This enabled the smaller, less efficient, stations at Dudley, Kidderminster and Redditch to be closed.
[4] The Shropshire Company continued to purchase, or obtain a controlling interest in, further electricity undertakings and closed the power stations as a bulk supply was available from its network.
These included the smaller power stations at:[2] In addition to the above towns the company supplied electricity to Bewdley, Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Evesham, Halesowen and Oldbury.
The details for 1946 were:[9] Following nationalisation the British Electricity Authority built Stourport B station (1950–54).This had a generating capacity of 120 MW.
[10] The growth of the Shropshire Company's business is shown in the general trend of an increase in the amount of electricity sold and the connected load.