[1] Following the construction of the national grid in 1928-33 Westwood power station was connected to an electricity grid ring which included the power stations at Southport, Lister Drive (Liverpool), Warrington and Ribble (Preston); this was one of three electricity rings in the North West.

The generating capacity and output from Westwood power station is given in the following graph and table.

[1][3][4][5] Westwood power station electricity output, GWhIn the year ending 31 March 1972 the station's load factor (the average load as a per cent of maximum output capacity) was 20.6 per cent.

[6][7] The former power station site has been developed into Westwood business park with over 610,000 square feet (57,000 m2) of office space.

[8] Another part of the site had been redeveloped into a Girobank office from the early 1990s until it was demolished in 2015 to make way for a 400,000 sqft Nice-Pak wet-wipe factory.