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BECCS

Drax: Yorkshire net zero industry hub could create 49,000 jobs
Drax: Yorkshire net zero industry hub could create 49,000 jobs

Study by Vivid Economics estimates scaling up carbon capture, hydrogen, and BECCS could deliver £3bn economic boost to the region

  • CCS
  • 18 November 2020
National Grid's net zero vision 'over-reliant' on bioenergy with CCS, report claims
National Grid's net zero vision 'over-reliant' on bioenergy with CCS, report claims

All National Grid's net zero pathways rely on significant BECCS capacity to generate 'negative emissions', claims think tank Ember

  • CCS
  • 29 October 2020
New business coalition leads calls for Chancellor to deliver negative emissions market
New business coalition leads calls for Chancellor to deliver negative emissions market

CBI, NFU, Energy UK and others form Coalition for Negative Emissions to set out the case for a new policy framework that could drive development of projects that are critical to net zero goals

  • Net Zero Now
  • 12 October 2020
Zero Carbon Humber: Consortium tables £75m bid for hydrogen CCS cluster
Zero Carbon Humber: Consortium tables £75m bid for hydrogen CCS cluster

Project aims to develop Europe's largest joint hydrogen production and carbon capture project by 2026, according to partners

  • CCS
  • 07 October 2020
'The biggest prize going': Inside the plans to decarbonise Britain's biggest industrial cluster
'The biggest prize going': Inside the plans to decarbonise Britain's biggest industrial cluster

The Humber Estuary is the most carbon-intensive stretch of the UK, home to 55,000 jobs and a huge slice of British economic value, but it is also one of the most climate vulnerable regions in the country - BusinessGreen sat down with the people working...

  • Energy
  • 07 October 2020
'Transformational': A tour of Drax's innovative CO2 capture pilot in North Yorkshire
'Transformational': A tour of Drax's innovative CO2 capture pilot in North Yorkshire

VIDEO: The energy company has been trialling ground-breaking CCS technology at its biomass power plant in a bid to achieve negative emissions

  • CCS
  • 30 September 2020
Transforming a power station for our net zero future
Transforming a power station for our net zero future

A timeline from coal to negative emissions at Drax – told by the engineers who were there

  • Energy
  • 28 September 2020
If the world wants a green recovery, it must commit to innovation
If the world wants a green recovery, it must commit to innovation

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner

  • Energy
  • 23 September 2020
Drax carbon capture pilot takes step forward as it appoints engineering partner
Drax carbon capture pilot takes step forward as it appoints engineering partner

Australian firm Worley appointed by Drax to provide the front-end engineering and design work on the first two carbon capture units at its Yorkshire biomass plant

  • Technology
  • 21 September 2020
Renewables costs keep on falling fast, but clean energy challenges remain
Renewables costs keep on falling fast, but clean energy challenges remain

New reports from the government and the Energy Systems Catapult have today provided further evidence the UK's energy industry is facing a decade of unprecedented and rapid change

  • Infrastructure
  • 25 August 2020
Drax to trial second CO2 capture system at Yorkshire biomass plant
Drax to trial second CO2 capture system at Yorkshire biomass plant

Drax teams up with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for 'groundbreaking' 12-month carbon capture pilot at its Yorkshire biomass plant

  • Technology
  • 24 June 2020
Drax announces 'world first' target to be carbon negative by 2030
Drax announces 'world first' target to be carbon negative by 2030

Power firm plans to use bioenergy with carbon capture and storage to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it generates

  • Technology
  • 10 December 2019
Drax, Equinor and National Grid push for net zero industrial cluster
Drax, Equinor and National Grid push for net zero industrial cluster

Companies spearhead campaign to turn Humber region into a hub for net zero technologies such as CCS, hydrogen and low carbon heating

  • Energy
  • 09 September 2019
UK power system produced record low CO2 emissions at end of June
UK power system produced record low CO2 emissions at end of June

Sunny, windy conditions on June 30 saw renewables supply more than half of UK's electricity, data commissioned by Drax shows

  • Energy
  • 24 July 2019
National Grid: 'Immediate action' required to ready UK energy system for Net Zero target
National Grid: 'Immediate action' required to ready UK energy system for Net Zero target

Reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century in the UK is 'possible' but will require radical changes to heating, transport, industry, and power sectors

  • Energy
  • 10 July 2019
Plans confirmed for UK industrial CCU plant: Has carbon capture's time finally come?
Plans confirmed for UK industrial CCU plant: Has carbon capture's time finally come?

Government hands out £26m in carbon capture funding, including to Tata Chemicals which plans to get the UK's first industrial scale facility running by 2021

  • Technology
  • 27 June 2019
Carbon capture: Shell, BP, Tata Steel, and Drax join £1m UK advisory group
Carbon capture: Shell, BP, Tata Steel, and Drax join £1m UK advisory group

The CCUS Advisory Group, backed by £1m of funding, includes representatives from Shell, BP, Tata Steel, Drax, and National Grid

  • Investment
  • 22 March 2019
'World-first': Drax BECCS pilot begins capturing carbon emissions
'World-first': Drax BECCS pilot begins capturing carbon emissions

C-Capture says its technology is now trapping one tonne of CO2 each day from the Drax power plant in Yorkshire

  • Biomass
  • 07 February 2019
C-Capture secures £3.5m backing from BP, Drax and IP Group
C-Capture secures £3.5m backing from BP, Drax and IP Group

UK carbon removal specialist's fundraise will help it further develop chemical-based system to remove CO2 from power plants, steel works, and cement factories

  • CCS
  • 04 February 2019
It's time to embrace CCUS
It's time to embrace CCUS

Brad Page and James Smith argue the time for arguing over competing low carbon technologies is drawing to a close

  • Infrastructure
  • 29 November 2018
'The time is now': Government unveils plans for UK's first carbon capture and usage project
'The time is now': Government unveils plans for UK's first carbon capture and usage project

Edinburgh Summit to see release of new action plan designed to deliver UK's first major CCUS project by the mid-2020s

  • Infrastructure
  • 28 November 2018
Drax flicks switch on Europe's first Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage pilot
Drax flicks switch on Europe's first Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage pilot

Pilot plant expected to capture a tonne of CO2 a day from biomass operations

  • CCS
  • 26 November 2018
Burning to solve climate change: The BECCS paradox
Burning to solve climate change: The BECCS paradox

For land rights and justice, the international climate solution is fundamentally flawed, argues ClientEarth's Caroline Haywood

  • Biomass
  • 06 November 2018
Reduction is no longer enough: Welcome to the new age of carbon removal
Reduction is no longer enough: Welcome to the new age of carbon removal

A heightened focus on solutions for sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere

  • Climate change
  • 26 October 2018
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