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 power station coal storage area, flue gas desulphurisation plant and gypsum handling facilities. The station is the third largest coal-fired power station in Europe, after Bełchatów Power Station in Poland, and Neurath Power Station in Germany. It produces around 24 terawatt hours (TWh) (86.4 petajoules) of electricity annually. Although it generates around 1,500,000 tonnes of ash and 22,800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, it is the most carbon-efficient coal-fired power plant in the United Kingdom. The design life was set out in terms of number of start-ups and operating "cycles", but with the presumption that the station would operate as a