Drax announces £40m investment in next stage of pioneering BECCS project

Cecilia Keating
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Drax Power Station, in North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax
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Drax Power Station, in North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax

Energy supplier touts tie-up with engineering services company Worley as evidence plan to build UK's largest carbon capture project in Yorkshire is moving ahead

Drax has announced it has contracted engineering services company Worley to produce a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for its plan to install carbon capture and storage at its biomass plant...

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