900 Megawatts of Biomass Power to Be Built by UK’s Drax Group

wood pile for biomass power photo
photo: Drax Group

Drax Group, the owner of the eponymous 4,000 MW coal-eating behemoth power plant in North Yorkshire, England has announced that it will be partnering with Siemens to do something other than spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Wait, that was a bit harsh…

Drax Group and Siemens say that they will be building three 300 MW biomass power plants in the UK over the next couple of years. The plants will be powered by energy crops and agricultural waste from the UK, and are expected to supply about 15% of the UK’s renewable electricity by the time the all come online. That’s still a wa…

October 25 2008 11:02 am | Environment and External Blogs and Green

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