Drax Group operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), Drax Power Station was constructed and commissioned in two stages. Stage one (units 1, 2 and 3) was completed in 1974. Some 12 years later in 1986, stage two (units 4, 5 and 6) was completed. Drax was the last coal-fired power station to be built in the UK, and was initially designed to use low-sulphur coal from the nearby Selby coalfield in six generating units. Each unit has a capacity of 660 MW when burning coal, giving a total capacity of just under 4 GW. This made Drax the largest power
Richard Drax served. He was promoted captain on 10 March 1986. He relinquished his British Army commission on 9 September 1987, thereby retiring after nine years' service as a Coldstreamer. Drax worked at York's "Evening Press" as a reporter in 1991, before joining BBC South where he appeared on both radio and television media, including the daily television news programme "South Today". Selected as a Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate in July 2006, at the general election in May 2010 Drax defeated the incumbent Labour Member of Parliament for South Dorset, Jim Knight, "later" Baron Knight of Weymouth. Drax retained his seat in