Drax, North Yorkshire 36,000 tonnes of coal a day and produces 1.5 million tonnes of ash a year. It is both the United Kingdom's largest producer of carbon emissions, and one of the UK's most carbon dioxide-efficient power stations. Drax Power Station now produces half its output by burning biomass. This is controversial as the wood pellets it burns are claimed to produce more carbon dioxide than coal. Drax, North Yorkshire Drax is a village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, about south-east of Selby, best known today as the site of Drax power station. The village had
Drax Group largest steam turbine modernisation programme in UK history – upgrading its high-pressure and low-pressure turbines. This saves one million tonnes of CO2 a year, which is the equivalent of taking 275,000 cars off the road. The vast majority of the UK’s tens of millions of homes depend on fossil fuels for their heating, mainly gas but also fuel oil. These energy sources are unsustainable, have question marks over security of supply and produce more carbon dioxide emissions than sustainably sourced biomass over its lifecycle. By 2014, the conversion of the first two generating units at Drax power station from burning