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Drax launches green skills drive to 'boost social mobility for one million people'
Energy firm joins Social Mobility Pledge led by former education secretary Justine Greening in bid to help plug green skills gap and support disadvantaged communities
'Flexible and renewable focus': Drax to sell four gas power stations in £193m deal
Sale of four combined cycle gas turbine sites acquired just two years ago will allow Drax to slash emissions and enhance its focus on flexible and renewable power generation, company says
The UK stands on the precipice of a global green revolution
The UK's ambitious new 2030 climate target is a beacon for the rest of the world to follow, and it couldn't come soon enough, writes Drax CEO Will Gardiner
Energy giants urge Prime Minister to set net zero power target
Johnson urged by major energy companies to emulate US president-elect Joe Biden and set a deadline for the decarbonisation of Britain's power system ahead of 2050 net zero goal
Creating a zero carbon industrial cluster
VIDEO: Carbon capture and hydrogen experts from the government and the Zero Carbon Humber partnership discuss the benefits and challenges of decarbonising heavy industry across the UK
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
Net Zero Festival: Going negative - making negative emissions a reality
VIDEO: Regen CEO Merlin Hyman speaks to Drax's Rebecca Heaton, David Joffe from the Committee on Climate Change, Jenifer Baxter from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME), and Great Grimsby MP Lia Nici about the challenges and opportunities of...
'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...
'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
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
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
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Drax CCS head Karl Smyth
VIDEO: Head of carbon capture and storage strategy & engagement at UK energy firm joins BusinessGreen editor in chief James Murray
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
How Britain's grid became 'cleaner, cheaper, and harder to control' during the Covid-19 lockdown
Impact of lockdown offers glimpse of how a net zero energy system could operate in the future, highlighting need for more grid flexibility, study argues
Hollow mountain: Highlands hydro storage plant to undergo £1m efficiency upgrade
Drax eyes key role for Cruachan pumped hydro storage station in managing growing levels of renewable electricity on the grid
Court of Appeal to hear legal challenge against Drax gas plant approval
ClientEarth wins right to appeal recent High Court decision which upheld planning approval for 3.6GW project
Project aiming to convert CO2 into animal feed bags £3m government funding
REACT-FIRST consortium aims to turn CO2 captured at Drax’s biomass power plant in Yorkshire into sustainable animal feed
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
UK's record run without coal power ends at 67 days
Testing at Drax power plant delivered coal power to the grid last night, as UK passes latest smart grid milestones
'Progress can be both quiet and spectacular': Britain's power grid emissions hit record lows
Electricity grid smashed several records over the bank holiday weekend, with low demand and high renewables output cutting both CO2 and flexible tariff prices
High Court rejects legal challenge against major Drax gas power project
ClientEarth and Planning Inspectorate had both argued the power station could undermine the UK's climate change targets
UK delivers longest coal-free power run since 1882
National Grid confirms UK has completed 438 consecutive hours without coal power – and counting
Opus Energy launches 100 per cent renewable power tariff for small firms
UK’s fifth largest business energy supplier, which is owned by Drax, offers fully renewable tariff for new and existing SME customers
UK power emissions falling 'faster than anywhere else in the world'
The UK's power sector CO2 has fallen by around two thirds over the past decade, a study by Imperial College London finds
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