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'Government must provide more certainty': Drax, biomass CCS, and the end of coal

19 June 2018 •

'Government must provide more certainty': Drax, biomass CCS, and the end of coal

Drax Power CEO Andy Koss talks to BusinessGreen about the firm's new carbon capture project and why new gas is needed to balance the ever cleaner power grid

You'll no doubt have heard the news: UK coal is on the way out. By 2025 the government has said all of Britain's eight remaining coal-fired power stations must cease to generate electricity, and at the...

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