The plant will also be the largest dedicated wood-burning power station in the UK. Unlike fossil fuels, biomass is renewable ...

As UK electricity prices skyrocketed last year, Drax Group Plc was in a position to blunt Britain’s pain. Since December 2016, a generator at the firm’s giant power plant had received £1.4 billion ($1 ...

Drax Group Plc is exploring options to sell power to a data-center provider in the UK, guaranteeing income for its biomass-fired plant. Electricity use by data hubs in Britain will jump sixfold in the ...

17 March 2008 – German energy group E.ON said it is planning to build a 25 MW biomass power station in south Yorkshire, England, UK. E.ON said it has applied for planning permission to construct the ...

Drax emitted 11.5 million metric tons of CO2 in 2023, equivalent to 2.9 percent of total UK territorial emissions. Image by Teamjackson via iStock The latest annual ranking of official data shows that ...

A biomass power station operated by energy group Drax is the UK’s top emitter of carbon dioxide, emitting more than four times the emissions of the UK’s remaining coal power plant, a new report by ...

New analysis by Natural Resources Defense Council claims biomass sourced from Estonia and Latvia is coming from forests with shrinking carbon storage capacity, but Drax counters that report ...

The UK’s financial watchdog has opened an investigation into Drax Group’s biomass sourcing statements of the past three years, the British energy group operating a controversial wood pellet power ...

AROUND 200 angry residents packed into a meeting last night to fight proposals for a £300m wood-fired power station. It was standing room only as the No Southampton Biomass group – established less ...