Drax Power Station: Biofuels

(asked on 26th 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, whether his Department plans to move from burning 25 million trees per year at Drax to shorter rotation bioenergy; and whether Drax turbines are technically constrained by burning this alternative feedstock.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 3rd February 2022

The UK only supports biomass that complies with strict sustainability requirements and generators only receive subsidies for compliant biomass

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