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Visit Drax Power Station; Visit Tongland Power Station; Visit Cruachan Power Station. Cruachan Power Station is located on the shores of Loch Awe in the Scottish Highlands, between Glasgow and Oban. The huge turbine hall is located 1 km within the hollowed-out mountain of
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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
Drax''s iconic Cruachan ''Hollow Mountain'' power station set for
Visit Drax Power Station; Visit Tongland Power Station; Drax''s iconic Cruachan ''Hollow Mountain'' power station set for £80 million upgrade. Renewable energy leader Drax is to invest £80 million in a major refurbishment of its iconic ''Hollow Mountain'' Cruachan pumped storage hydro power station in Scotland, increasing its capacity
Drax Power Station
Drax Power Station has evolved considerably since construction began in the 1960s. It has six boilers, four of which have now been converted to biomass. With each as high as a 15-storey office block, a main chimney almost twice the height of the London Eye, and over 1,800 miles of steel tubing, enough to stretch from John O''Groats to Land''s
Over 100 businesses attend Cruachan Expansion event
Renewable energy pioneer Drax has welcomed over 100 businesses, prospective suppliers and local communities to an event for the planned expansion project at Cruachan Pumped Storage Hydro Power Station.
Visit Tongland Power Station
Visit Drax Power Station; Visit Tongland Power Station; Visit Tongland Power Station . Tongland Power Station is the largest of the Galloway hydro scheme''s electricity generation plants. The turbine house was built in the 1930s and offers an excellent example of early-modernist architecture applied to an industrial setting. Original features
Bright sparks – Drax welcomes new generation of
The talented youngsters are joining the company''s technical apprenticeship scheme at Drax Power Station, near Selby, in North Yorkshire. The plant is the UK''s single-largest generator of renewable power, producing enough renewable electricity for
The Firm That Wants to Power AI With Southern Yellow Pine
Power producer Drax DRX-0.40%decrease; red down pointing triangle is scouting locations in the American pine belt to build electricity generators fueled by burning wood chips. The plan calls
Newsweek Pillars of the Green Transition interview with Drax
Drax, originally the largest coal-fired power station in Western Europe, underwent a significant transformation over the past two decades to switch from coal to biomass. Today, instead of burning coal, we use around 7 to 8 million tons of wood pellets annually, primarily sourced from the southeastern U.S. and western Canada.
UK leads the world in global decarbonisation league – report
Having converted Drax Power Station to use sustainable biomass instead of coal it has become the UK''s biggest renewable power generator and the largest decarbonisation project in Europe. It is also where Drax is piloting the groundbreaking negative emissions technology BECCS within its CCUS (Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage) Incubation
Visit Cruachan Power Station
Read our carbon capture, sustainable bioenergy and power generation stories, as well as thinking from Drax''s leaders and business updates. Media Contacts; Cruachan Power Station is located on the shores of Loch Awe in the Scottish Highlands, between Glasgow and Oban. The huge turbine hall is located 1 km within the hollowed-out mountain
The role of biomass in securing reliable power generation
Drax''s Cruachan pumped storage hydro power station in the Scottish Highlands also offers National Grid the capacity to store 440 MW of renewable power. By absorbing excess electricity from zero carbon sources, like wind and solar, Cruachan can store and deploy power when the grid needs it most.
Drax launches documentary series to celebrate 50 Years
Since Drax Power Station first began generating power in 1974, it has become a cornerstone of the UK''s energy infrastructure, now producing 9% of the nation''s renewable electricity – the largest single source of renewable power in the country. The documentary shows how Drax has kept the country''s lights on for half a century and
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Visit Cruachan Power Station
Visit Drax Power Station; Visit Tongland Power Station; Visit Cruachan Power Station. Cruachan Power Station is located on the shores of Loch Awe in the Scottish Highlands, between Glasgow and Oban. The huge turbine hall is
Analysis: development of BECCS at Drax Power Station
New analysis by Baringa and commissioned by Drax Group (Drax) – The Value of BECCS at Drax Power Station – finds that Drax''s proposals for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) could save the UK up to £15bn in
The BECCS Blueprint: Inside Drax''s Carbon Removal Methodology
How BECCS is a unique technology that generates renewable power while removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. How we worked with Stockholm Exergi to create a framework, validated by DNV, which will give buyers confidence in the sustainability and quality of carbon removals from BECCS, and helps to pave the way for a thriving voluntary
New ''Hollow Mountain'' power station moves forward to
Steve Marshall, Drax''s Development Manager, said: "A new generation of pumped storage hydro plants will strengthen the UK''s energy security by enabling more homegrown renewable electricity to come online to power homes and businesses across the country. Drax''s plan to build a new plant at Cruachan will support hundreds of jobs and
Visit Cruachan Power Station
Read our carbon capture, sustainable bioenergy and power generation stories, as well as thinking from Drax''s leaders and business updates. Media Contacts; Cruachan Power Station is located on the shores of Loch Awe in the Scottish
For 50 years Drax Power Station has been generating
By Bruce Heppenstall, Plant Director, Drax Power Station. Drax Power Station has kept Britain''s lights on for 50 years. As well as playing a key role in the country''s energy security, providing enough power for 4 million
Drax Power Station
Drax Power Station has a long, proud history of playing a central role in producing the UK''s electricity. It is already the home of the largest decarbonisation project in Europe and is now the site of innovation for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a negative emissions technology essential for fighting the climate crisis.. The site near Selby in North Yorkshire
Drax Power Station shines a white rose across Yorkshire
Drax Power Station is the UK''s single-largest renewable power generator, producing enough renewable electricity for around four million UK homes. Recently published research by Oxford Economics found the power station contributed £358m to the economy of Yorkshire and the Humber, with 2,580 jobs supported by the plant.
Drax Group CEO, Will Gardiner, welcomes National
Drax Power Station is the UK''s single largest source of renewable power, providing 2.6GW of dispatchable secure generation. In 2023, it provided 4% of the UK''s electricity and 8% of its renewable power. The Selby
Development of UK CCS infrastructure and BECCS business model
"BECCS has the potential to deliver carbon removals whilst generating renewable power and installing this technology at Drax Power Station will enable it to continue to play a critical role in the UK''s energy security, creating and supporting thousands of jobs in the Humber region and helping the country meet its Net Zero targets."
Introducing Elimini: New carbon removal leader launches at New
Elimini has launched at New York Climate Week with ambition to deliver carbon removals at megaton scale and 24/7 renewable power; US-based company group has entered into 11 carbon dioxide removal deals with eight companies, two fiber option agreements, the establishment of an esteemed Advisory Council, and the creation of four knowledge
Visit Drax Power Station
At Drax Power Station you can see every part of how electricity generation is done and find out how we''re upgrading to the latest biomass technology. Pellet Sales; Resources; Contact Us; Canada ; Pellet Sales. We believe investing in
Visit Drax Power Station
Drax Power Station provides the most renewable power of any single location in the UK, some 14 terawatt-hours or enough electricity to power the equivalent of four million homes. To do this, Drax runs on a massive scale. We''ve got 4
Visit Drax Power Station
At Drax Power Station you can see every part of how electricity generation is done and find out how we''re upgrading to the latest biomass technology. Pellet Sales; Resources; Contact Us; Canada ; Pellet Sales. We believe investing in our people goes hand-in-hand with enabling the green energy transformation and positive future growth.
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Where is Drax based?
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.
Who owns Drax Power Station?
In 1990, the electricity industry of England and Wales was privatised under the Electricity Act 1989. Three generating companies and 12 regional electricity companies were created. As a result of privatisation, Drax Power Station came under the ownership of National Power, one of the newly formed generating companies.
What happened to Drax Power Station?
One significant change was the emergence of vertically integrated companies, combining generation, distribution and supply interests. In certain cases, it became necessary for generation assets to be divested, and so in 1999 Drax Power Station was acquired by the US-based AES Corporation for £1.87 billion (US$3 billion).
Did Drax buy Opus Energy?
In 2016, Drax Group acquired Opus Energy for £340 million funded by a new acquisition debt facility of up to £375 million. In October 2017, Drax sold Billington Bioenergy for £2 million to an AIM-listed energy company called Aggregated Micro Power Holdings.
Where is Drax Power Station?
Drax power station is an operating power station of at least 2676-megawatts (MW) in Drax, Selby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom with multiple units, some of which are not currently operating. It is also known as UK Oxy CCS Demonstration Project (White Rose CCS Project). The map below shows the exact location of the power station. Loading map...
How many people work at Drax?
In 2012, Drax employed over 700 people and provided about 7% of Britain's electrical power demand. The six units were served by independent wet limestone-gypsum flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) plant. The station's chimney is the tallest in the UK.