It was also known as North Wilford power station and Nottingham power station Nottingham Corporation obtained a Provisional Order from the Board of Trade in 1890 to generate and supply electricity which was first supplied in September 1894.

[3] By 1920 Nottingham Corporation wished to develop its electricity supply and planned Wilford power station to use coal from the nearby Clifton mine.

And for six water-tube boilers with mechanical stokers, super-heaters and forced draught fans.

[4] Construction took 5 years, cost £700,000 (equivalent to £50,430,000 in 2023)[5] and the first 30 MW section was completed and formally opened on 17 September 1925.

[6] The new station was opened on 17 September 1925 by Sir John Snell the Chairman of the Electricity Commissioners.

On 7 November 1928 Sir Andrew Duncan the Chairman of the Central Electricity Board inaugurated a new 20,000 kW set at the North Wilford station.

1 × 52.5 (plus 2 × 2.5 MW house service) Wilford power station was the site of an experimental plant to remove sulphur compounds from the flue gases.

[18] A pilot plant was installed in 1957, at a cost of £220,000, to treat 56,000 ft3/min (1586 m3/min) of boiler flue gases using a cyclic ammonia process.

[20] Sulphur compounds in the gases reacted with the solution to form ammonium sulphite, bisulphite and thiosulphate.

The plant was shut down in 1959 because of the difficulty of obtaining ammonia, the impurities in the product and objectionable odours in the gas plume.

Much of the area was redeveloped with the neighbouring clay works and railway terminus demolished around the same time.