Biomass-burning unit to exhaust pioneering technology that aims to cut emissionsDrax Group will lead a £400000 trial to capture and store carbon at its north Yorkshire power station in an attempt to kickstart a technology that has repeatedly failed to acquire off the ground in the UK.
The company was part of earlier efforts to build a £1bn prototype carbon capture coal plant,but pulled out in 2015 after it missed out on renewable energy subsidies. Now the firm will try again with a pioneering form of the technology, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), or to cut emissions from one of its four biomass-burning units. Experts believe the project is a world first.
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Source: theguardian.com