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Plans revealed for £25m energy plant at former Lemington Power Station in Newcastle

Source: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk

Scottish power group Stag Energy says the scheme forms an important part of transition to low carbon energy.An energy company has unveiled plans to build a £25m power project on the site of a former Newcastle power station, 100 years after it closed.Sambar Power Limited, a subsidiary of UK power generation group Stag Energy, wants to build a gas ‘peaking plant’ on the site of the former Lemington Power Station, which stopped generating electricity back in 1919.