Energy and Climate Change Minister Mike O'Brien says the three stations will produce around 4 gigawatts (GW) of power – enough to provide about 4 million homes with electricity.
They will be built at Pembroke, King's Lynn and Hatfield.
The consented power stations are:
* a 2,000 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power station at Pembroke, South West Wales to RWE npower
* a 900 MW integrated coal gasification gas-fired power station at Hatfield, Yorkshire to Powerfuel Power
* a 1,020 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power station at King's Lynn, Norfolk to Centrica Leasing
Each power station agreed during the planning process that they have enough available land to retrofit CCS plants in the future.
Consent
