By Annelise Giseburt The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) is a leading global biomass certification scheme offering ...

Drax’s pellet plants supply biomass used at its own power station in North Yorkshire, England to generate flexible, renewable power for the UK’s homes and businesses, and also to customers in ...

Drax Group chief executive, Will Gardiner said: “It is welcome that Ofgem has found no evidence that our biomass failed to meet the sustainability criteria of the Renewables Obligation (RO ...

In reality, however, the use of biomass usually comes down to grinding up logs into quarter-inch long pellets, shipping them thousands of miles to converted coal-fired generating plants such as the ...

The Drax power generating station looms over North Yorkshire, England, tall as a city high-rise. For decades the plant was Western Europe’s largest coal polluter, but in 2003 Drax began ...

Drax is converting to biomass fuel as rising coal prices squeeze its profits. The government finalised subsidies in July for burning biomass with other fuels in power plants, aimed at helping it ...

Global energy giant Drax Group was fined $34,000 for starting construction on a $250 million biomass fuel plant in Longview before securing the proper permits. The 48-acre plant will be located at ...

Drax Power has asked the UK government to consider creating a new, dedicated Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROC) subsidy banding for the burning of biomass in converted coal fired boiler units.

UK power generator Drax Group Plc jumped the most in four years after announcing a program to return £300 million ($386 million) to shareholders and an improved profit outlook.

Drax has the world's biggest coal and biomass co-burning facility, able to use 1.4 million tonnes a year of plant material to drive a steam turbine and generate electricity.