Drax wanted to build three plants which would run on biomass. This seems pointless.
First, it was going to require subsidies. Government let Drax work up these plans publicly and has now blithely announced that subsidies would be phased out after four years. This is no good for Drax, so if they build biomass plants it will be somewhere else with a more generous subsidy regime. If other countries want to throw their money at this, they are more than welcome.
It is pointless to pay money in order to cut emissions of a beneficial gas. And anyway we can't afford it.
But it was environmentally odd anyway. The plants would each have been bigger than any comparable biomass project - "and would have to be fed by a steady stream of cargo ships loaded with trees from as far away as Canada"! So no energy security there.
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It would be interesting to know if Drax funded all this research themselves.
The cynic in me says unikely bearing in mind the government p'sses our money against the wind at every available opportunity!
Thinking of an FOI on this but doubt if they would answer.
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