Biofuels: Power Stations

(asked on 27th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the age bands of trees used to produce wood pellets for biomass power stations in (a) the UK and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 3rd November 2021

The UK only supports biomass which complies with strict sustainability criteria and generators only receive subsidies for compliant biomass.

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