'Its future potential is extraordinary': What is in the UK's new Biomass Strategy?

Cecilia Keating
clock • 8 min read
Woody biomass is a feedstock for biofuels | Credit: iStock
Image:

Woody biomass is a feedstock for biofuels | Credit: iStock

Ministers have doubled down on their support for nascent biomass and carbon capture technologies in a new roadmap for the sector

The government has published its long-awaited biomass strategy, setting out the role it believes the burning of wood, plants, and other organic matter can play in the UK's future energy mix as it transitioned...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

More on Biomass

MPs accuse government of letting biomass importers 'mark their own homework'

MPs accuse government of letting biomass importers 'mark their own homework'

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

Stuart Stone
clock 25 April 2025 • 5 min read
Government to halve subsidies for Drax biomass power plant with new 'compromise' contract

Government to halve subsidies for Drax biomass power plant with new 'compromise' contract

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

James Murray
clock 10 February 2025 • 5 min read
Drax to pay £25m following Ofgem biomass data investigation

Drax to pay £25m following Ofgem biomass data investigation

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

Michael Holder
clock 29 August 2024 • 5 min read