Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many tonnes of wood pellets were burnt at the Drax Power station in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021; and what the maximum quantity of wood pellets burnt permitted is under the contract which runs to 2027.
Data on tonnes of wood burned at Drax power station under the Renewable Obligation (RO) can be found here https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/biomass-sustainability-dataset-2020-21. Figures for the Contract for Difference (CfD) are as follows:
Drax’s support under the RO and their CfD contract sets no limits on the quantity of wood pellets that the generator may burn.