 The Environmental Assessment <unk> Report for the proposed station was submitted to the Department of Trade and Industry in 2007 , and the application for the development was to be made to the Secretary of State for Business , Enterprise and Regulatory Reform once the Environmental Impact Assessment was completed . A contract had already been signed with the Shaw Group to design and engineer the station . If Npower had been granted permission to build the new station , construction work would have begun in 2010 , and the station was expected to be fully commissioned by 2014 . It would have been one of the most efficient coal @-@ fired power stations of its size in the UK . 
