Biomass

Biomass could provide up to 5.5GW of low carbon power to help manage weather-dependent renewables, a new REA report calculates, but concerns remain over sustainable feedstocks

Public Accounts Committee calls for more robust oversight of biomass supply chains to help ensure public value for money and dispel 'white elephant' fears

Proposed agreement aims to ensure only sustainable biomass used in Yorkshire power plant, but campaigners decry 'a dirty compromise with past failures'

Energy firm admits to inadvertently breaching sustainability data reporting rules, but Ofgem finds no evidence Drax incorrectly received UK renewables subsidies

Bioenergy with CCS technology carries significant risks and will fail to deliver the emissions savings promised, argues Ember's Frankie Mayo

Characterisations of Drax as the world's biggest wood burner are misleading and sometimes deliberately dishonest, argues environmental campaigner Jonathan Porritt

Hogsmill and Beddington treatment works exporting enough green electricity to power more than 2,000 homes and businesses for six months

Tidal barrage connecting Liverpool and Wirral announced as the preferred option to harness renewable energy from the River Mersey

Energy company announces plans to explore potential for North Sea carbon storage, in same week as it faces fresh questions over the sustainability of wood chips sourced from North America

Power plant operator launches US-headquartered entity to oversee development and construction of new-build BECCS plants