Biofuels: Carbon Emissions
(asked on 15th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made a comparative estimate of carbon emissions when using (a) US produced and (b) UK produced wood pellets.
Answered by
Michael Shanks
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 23rd May 2025
All biomass pellets for UK generation, regardless of country of origin, must meet supply chain emissions thresholds; these have been tightened further to 36.6 gCO2eq/MJ in the Heads of Terms agreed with Drax and announced on 10 February.
It is for generators to determine how and where to source compliant sustainable biomass pellets to meet the required volumes of generation.