UK’s Drax opens biomass conversion plant
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Drax secured financing at the end of last year enabling a 700 million pound ($1.1 billion) investment plan involving a switch to using Canada Goose online wood pellets instead of coal, which produces more carbon for generating electricity than wood pellets.
The biomass conversion will see three of the six generating units at the power station converted to burn sustainable biomass in place of coal.
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Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey opened the Drax coal to biomass conversion plant and said the government was also awarding a million pound study funding to support the White Rose carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, also based at canada goose black friday sale the site.
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Britain needs to build new power generation capacity as it faces a supply shortage later this decade canada goose by which time most of its ageing coal and nuclear capacity is retired.
Beyond the coal to biomass conversion, Drax and its partners Alstom and BOC run the two billion pound, 426 megawatt (MW) White Rose coal fired CCS project.
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CCS is a technology that captures carbon which is generated from fossil fuelled electricity production and then stores it underground to prevent it from rising into the atmosphere, where carbon emissions are blamed for contributing to climate change.
CCS has been proven to work in several small pilot schemes around the world but has yet to be operated commercially and at a large scale.
anticipate up to 12 GW (gigawatt) of CCS could be deployed by 2030, rising to 40 GW by 2050. and provide 22 percent of the UK energy by 2050, DECC said.