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Biomass and bioenergy

September 2024

  • steam billows from the four Drax cooling towers at dusk in Selby, North Yorkshire

    Why ‘the UK’s biggest carbon emitter’ receives billions in green subsidies

    TheDrax power plant burns 7m tonnes of biomass pellets a year and generates 4% of UK’s electricity needs

August 2024

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    After wood pellet reporting failures, it’s time for a proper review of Drax’s subsidies

    Nils Pratley
  • view of the site showing six huge smoking chimneys from a field in the foreground

    Green groups urge Ed Miliband to scrap Drax subsidies

July 2024

  • Sunset over the Drax power station in North Yorkshire in 2020.

    Drax Group to give shareholders £300m windfall as profits rise

    Owner of North Yorkshire power station earned £393m in government subsidies for biomass

January 2024

  • Biomass fuel storage tanks stand in the Drax power station near Selby.

    Questions over £22bn in UK billpayer cash handed to wood-burning firms

    Spending watchdog calls for biomass subsidy scheme to have tougher environmental requirements
  • A house next to six cooling towers in a rural landscape

    Fury at plan to extend Drax subsidy to burn trees for electricity

    Climate groups and MPs criticise proposals for consumers to foot bill to support biomass plant after existing scheme ends in 2027
  • FILE PHOTO: Sunset over Drax power station in North Yorkshire<br>FILE PHOTO: Drax power station is pictured during the sunset in Drax, North Yorkshire, Britain, November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith/File Photo

    Drax gets go-ahead for carbon capture project at estimated £40bn cost to bill-payers

    Scheme to convert biomass units could become one of world’s most expensive energy projects, experts say

August 2023

  • Biomass fuel storage tanks at the Drax power station near Selby, North Yorkshire.

    Drax denies use of subsidy loophole to avoid £639m payout to households

    Bloomberg alleges Drax idled an electricity generating unit and resold its biomass pellets rather than return money to bill payers

May 2023

  • The Drax power station in Selby, North Yorkshire.

    Drax-owned wood pellet plant in US broke air pollution rules again

    Amite BioEnergy, which was fined $2.5m in 2021, notified Mississippi facility had breached emission limits

March 2023

  • An onshore wind farm in Llandinam, Wales.

    Net zero strategy shows UK will miss 2030 emissions cuts target

  • Sunset over Drax power station in North Yorkshire

    UK energy strategy casts doubt on Drax’s carbon capture project

  • Drax power station in North Yorkshire

    Net zero tsar and senior Tories among those urging biomass subsidies rethink

  • The site of the proposed biogas plant is seen from Seaford Road in Seaford, Delaware. Residents worry about pollution and the flow of heavy-duty vehicle traffic through the neighborhood

    America's dirty divide
    Recycling America’s chicken poop sounds great – unless you live next door

February 2023

  • Drax power station in North Yorkshire.

    Call to cut UK subsidies as Drax power station profits nearly double

    Critics say power generator would make loss without public support as firm boosts dividend after 84% rise in profits to £731m
  • Two people install an air-source heat pump

    £450m boiler upgrade scheme for England and Wales is failing to deliver

    Only a third of low-carbon heating scheme’s annual budget has been used since launch in May 2022
  • Energy illustration

    Energy mix: how is electricity generated in Great Britain?

    Graphs show the sources of generation in a country that has one of the most diverse ranges in Europe

January 2023

  • Sunset over Drax power station in North Yorkshire.

    Greenpeace accuses Treasury of distorting its stance on biomass burning

  • Hydro-treated vegetable oil tank

    MPs to hear plan to get rural households to run heating on vegetable oil

December 2022

  • Drax power station near Selby, North Yorkshire, which has a biomass facility.

    Wood burning stoves and the harm done by inflating the risk of nuclear power

  • A motorcyclist talks to a worker standing next to a truck loaded with wood logs

    The age of extinction
    Stop burning trees to make energy, say 650 scientists before Cop15 biodiversity summit

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