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{{#badges:CoalSwarm|Navbar-UnitedKingdomandcoal}}'''High Marnham Power Station''' was a 945 megawatt (MW) coal plant in Nottinghamshire, England, UK. The plant was built in 1959 and retired in 2003.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Marnham_Power_Station "High Marnham Power Station,"] Wikipedia, accessed February 27, 2013</ref>

==Location==
The undated satellite photo below shows the power station in Nottinghamshire.
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==Proposed power station will be gas-fired, not coal-fired==
The station was the site of a 1,600 MW supercritical project proposed by [[E.ON UK]] with a notional commissioning date of 2012.<ref>James Richens, [http://www.endsreport.com/index.cfm?action=report.article&articleID=18544 "King coal promises to clean up"], ''ENDS Report 396'', January 2008, pp 26-29.</ref> In 2009 ''Power Engineering'' reported that the company had decided to develop a 1,600 MW combined-cycle gas plant to replace the High Marnham coal plant.<ref>[http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/print/volume-18/issue-1/features/the-ups-and-downs.html "The ups and downs of 2009: review of the year,"] Power Engineering, January 2, 2010</ref>

==Project Details of proposed station==
*'''Sponsor:''' [[E.ON UK]]
*'''Parent company:''' 
*'''Developer:''' 
*'''Location:''' Marnham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, UK
*'''Coordinates:''' 53.22902, -0.792565 (exact)
*'''Status:''' Cancelled (gas-fired station proposed)
*'''Gross Capacity:''' 1600 MW
*'''Type:''' [[Supercritical]]
*'''Start date:''' 
*'''Coal Type:''' Hard coal
*'''Coal Source:'''  
*'''Source of financing:'''

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