MORE than 150 jobs are at risk after EDF announced today that it will be closing a power station in Nottinghamshire.

The French company said the coal-fired station in Cottam is “not economically viable” and is proposing to cease operations on September 30, bringing to an end more than 50 years of power generation.

EDF said that “challenging market conditions” are to blame for the loss, and added that the “drive to decarbonise electricity generation” also had a role to play in the closure of the plant.