drax group plc on thursday reported a profit for 2021 although its underlying performance was hurt by a major planned generation outage on one biomass unit the ftse 250 power generation company swung to a pretax profit of 1215 million pounds 1646 million last year from a gbp2347 million loss in 2020when it booked significant obsolescence charges in respect of its coal power plants adjusted earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization dropped to gbp398 million from gbp412 million reflecting a major planned outage at the drax power station drax declared a final dividend 113 pence a share bringing the fullyear distribution to 188 penceup from 171 pence a year earlier shares at 0808 gmt were down 46 at 6015 pence