SSE has reported a delay in completing the commissioning of Keadby Two power station.
The £350 million combined cycle gas turbine plant is part of an emerging cluster in North Lincolnshire, with carbon capture and hydrogen set to follow.
In a market update ahead of publication of its half-year results in November - which came with a promise to reinvest additional profits back into infrastructure to prevent a repeat of the current energy crisis - the company told how it is now “expected to be available later this winter to help secure energy supplies”.