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Drax axes 'new biomass' plans

Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?Drax Group PLC has scrapped plans to build a dedicated 300MW biomass plant at its 4,000MW…

CCS axe threatens future of coal

Added: 1 Nov 2011

The UK government has decided not to construct carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities at the L…

EMR: 'Unremitting' cost increases?

Added: 1 Nov 2011

During a conference at The Energy Event, at the Birmingham NEC, Andrew Buckley, director-general of…

EA creates new National Water Quality Instrumentation Service

Added: 6 Oct 2011

London — The Environment Agency (EA) has created a new National Water Quality Instrumentation Servi…

Biomass players in the dark

Added: 4 Oct 2011

Lack of progress with Drax and Siemens plan to add 900MW of new capacity highlights barriers to exp…

Drax green plans stuck on red

Added: 11 Aug 2011

Drax, UK – Drax burnt 600,000 of biomass in the first half of 2011, generating around 6% of the UK’…

Manager kicks a hornets' nest

Added: 21 Jul 2011

Patrick Raleigh reports from the ACE conference in Manchester, where a wireless challenge was throw…