Drax Power Station: Subsidies

(asked on 13th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what renewable subsidies for burning wood pellets were paid to Drax in each of the last 10 years under the (a) Renewables Obligation and (b) Contracts for Difference scheme.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 21st January 2022

Information is not available on the support given specifically for the generation of electricity from the burning of wood pellets.

The figures in the table below give the value of the support under the Renewables Obligation for generation from all the types of biomass used by Drax.

Year

Notional value of support under the Renewables Obligation[1]

2011/12

£50.5m

2012/13

£21.3m

2013/14

£181.3m

2014/15

£399.1m

2015/16

£548.1m

2016/17

£547.9m

2017/18

£399.2m

2018/19

£513.3m

2019/20

£508.9m

2020/21

£508.5m[2]

Drax has received support under the Contracts for Difference scheme since 21 December 2016. Payments to individual projects are published by the Low Carbon Contracts Company on their Data Portal[3].

[1] Support under the Renewables Obligation is through tradeable certificates. The figures give the notional value of the support, based on Ofgem’s certificate report as at 14 January 2022 from their Renewables and CHP Register at: https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/Public/ReportViewer.aspx?ReportPath=/DatawarehouseReports/CertificatesExternalPublicDataWarehouse&ReportVisibility=1&ReportCategory=2

[2] Provisional figure as all the certificates for 2020/21 may not have been issued yet.

[3] The Low Carbon Contracts Company’s Data Portal is at: https://www.lowcarboncontracts.uk/dashboards/cfd/actuals-dashboards/historical-dashboard

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