Community | May 20, 2008 | 1 comment

Drax to burn imported wood to cut CO2 emissions

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Wood from Canada and Scandinavia will be imported to be burnt in Britain’s largest power station as part of a plan to generate 10 per cent of its electricity from biomass.

Drax, the huge coal-fired power station near Selby in North Yorkshire that generates 7 per cent of all the UK’s electricity, has signed a deal with Alstom, the French engineering group, to build a £50 million “co-firing facility”, enabling it to burn biomass as well as coal in its boilers.

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