Drax pushes CO2 removal via BECCS as key climate tool
Why Drax is pushing CO2 removal as a key climate tool. Drax is out to prove that applying carbon capture and storage technologies to biomass-fired energy production is vital to get to net zero. Energy Monitor spoke to the UK power company''s CEO Will Gardiner.
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Drax Group plc, trading as Drax, is a power generation business. The principal downstream enterprises are based in the UK and include Drax Power Limited, which runs the biomass fuelled Drax power station, near Selby in North Yorkshire. The Group also runs an international biomass supply chain business. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index
Where now for Drax power station?
Drax power station has been a lynchpin of the UK''s energy generation portfolio for decades. The plant, which was opened in 1974 and extended in the mid-1980s, has a generating capacity of nearly 4GW and meets around 7-8% of the country''s total electricity needs.
Drax to pay Ofgem $33m after misreporting biomass data
The UK''s energy regulator, Ofgem, announced on Thursday (29 August) that renewable energy generator Drax Power will pay £25m for misreporting data regarding imported biomass from Canada. In May 2023, Ofgem launched an investigation into whether Drax was in breach of annual profiling reporting requirements aligning with the Renewables
Drax Group
Drax Group plc, trading as Drax, is a power generation business. The principal downstream enterprises are based in the UK and include Drax Power Limited, which runs the biomass fuelled Drax power station, near Selby in North Yorkshire .
Drax''s great biomass carbon capture experiment
Drax power station in North Yorkshire, UK, has started capturing carbon dioxide through its new bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot project - the first anywhere in the world. To find out more about the technology and the plant''s journey towards eventual carbon-neutrality, Heidi Vella spoke with Drax''s research and innovation