Eggborough League. The village is the site of the coal-fired Eggborough Power Station, built in the 1960s and now owned by British Energy. Its 4 turbines can produce a total combined output of 1960 MWe. The power station was due to be closed in 2016, but won a reprieve as a back up generator of power until March 2017 and then again until March 2018. The owners are applying for permission to convert the power station to a gas-fired power plant. There was also a short lived biomass power station, ARBRE Power Station, built by the Kelda Group, owners of Yorkshire
Drax Hall Estate Drax Hall Estate Drax Hall Estate (Barbados) was a sugarcane plantation of Saint George in central Barbados in the Caribbean. It is the site where the first sugar cane was cultivated in Barbados and is still only one of three Jacobean houses remaining in Barbados. The estate has belonged to the Drax family since it was built in the early 1650s by James Drax and his brother, William. The estate is still a sugar plantation but the house is not open to the public, its grounds spanning much of the eastern landscape of Saint George. William Drax moved on to