GALWAY, IRELAND--March 23, 2015 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) The ongoing closure of U.K. gas-fired plants continued last week as E.ON (XETRA:EOAN) (Düsseldorf, Germany) announced that it was withdrawing its 900-megawatt (MW) Killingholme plant from the U.K. electricity grid.

The decision comes after the Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) failed to win support in the recent Capacity Market Auction conducted by the country's grid operator, National Grid plc (NYSE:NGG) (London).