Roosecote, near Barrow, is the oldest gas-fired power station in the UK and employs 22 staff.
Belgian firm C-Gen wants to build a gas-fired power station with carbon capture in Killingholme, North Lincolnshire.
These plants are connected to the exhaust flues of the refinery and also to a nearby gas-fired power station.
Vernon has its own gas-fired power station and sells electricity for about 20% less than elsewhere in the area.
The UK government selected the gas-fired power station at Peterhead in Aberdeenshire and the coal-fired power station at Drax in North Yorkshire.
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Objections to a controversial plan for a new coal-fired power station in Ayrshire will be heard at the Court of Session later.
The coal-fired power station at Cockenzie in East Lothian has been closed.
The firm behind controversial proposals for a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston in Ayrshire has formed a consortium to move the project forward.
West Burton has a coal-fired power station, but the campaigners occupied a new gas-fired facility on the site, which is due to become operational following testing.
Supporters of renewable energy said that was the equivalent of taking some 3.5 million cars off the roads or turning off the country's biggest coal-fired power station.
All of which is fine and dandy except that, if rigged to the average coal-fired power station, this process might use a quarter of the energy the plant produces.
Mr Finnie was referring to the application by Ayrshire Power to build a coal-fired power station at the plant in North Ayrshire, during a member's debate on 15 September 2010.
That lets operators experiment with different flow rates and carbon-dioxide concentrations, which can be tweaked to be anything from 3.5% to 14% (roughly equivalent to those from a coal-fired power station).
The site was designated for a new coal-fired power station in the Scottish government's National Planning Framework (NPF), which deems the site nationally important and limits the powers of local people to object.
It also said it expected the plant to create 70 long-term jobs and save the country nearly three million tonnes of carbon over its 20 year life, compared to a traditional coal fired power station.
The biggest project will be the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station, a coal-fired plant that was decommissioned in the 1980s.
Hunterston was ear-marked as a site for a potential coal-fired carbon capture and storage (CCS) power station to replace the current facility.
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