Drax Power Station: Timber

(asked on 26th May 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 20th June 2022

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:

  • 19/20 - 2,473,567.82 Tonnes
  • 20/21 - 2,643,105.01 Tonnes

Drax’s support under the RO and their CfD contract sets no limits on the quantity of wood pellets that the generator may burn.

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