A proposed £2.1bn subsea electricity “superhighway” between England and Scotland has now had planning consent by all necessary authorities approved.
Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is a proposal to connect Peterhead in Scotland with Drax’s power station in North Yorkshire with 463km of subsea cables. Planning consent for all onshore and…
North Yorkshire Council assistant director of planning on community development services Trevor Watson has recommended the council to approve a planning application from power generator Drax for a converter station and its associated infrastructure to support a planned £2.1bn electricity “superhighway”.
The council’s strategic planning committee will preside over the application…
Renewable energy company Drax Group has been granted planning permission by the Scottish Government for a new £500M underground pumped storage hydro plant at its Cruachan facility in Argyll.
The 600MW capacity plant will be constructed adjacent to the existing underground facility and more than double to the site’s existing generation…
Plans are afoot to build a second hydro storage power station inside Argyll's highest mountain in Scotland.
Ben Cruachan mountain is already home to one underground pumped storage hydropower station. Drax is now hoping to secure a £500M investment to build the second, which would have the capacity to generate enough…
Drax is expected to submit a not guilty plea in response to charges relating to health and safety breaches, at a pre-trial hearing taking place today.
NCE understands that Drax will plead not guilty to both charges of breaching health and safety regulations at its Selby power plant. Drax is facing…
An alternative approach to carbon capture could undermine plans for the Drax power plant.
Climate Change Committee (CCC) head of carbon budgets David Joffe told an Environment Audit Committee hearing yesterday that the UK should rely more on direct air carbon capture (DACCS) instead of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage…
Drax is facing criminal charges over alleged health risks faced by workers at its power station.
According to Sky News, the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has brought two charges against Drax which will be heard at the Magistrates Court in November. The HSE is particularly concerned about workers’ exposure to…
Green groups have written to prime minister Boris Johnson asking him to reconsider subsidising industrial scale biomass fuelled power at the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire.
Instead they called for the government to encourage the development of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (Beccs). The groups include the RSPB, The Wildlife…
A legal challenge to the UK government’s approval of two new gas-fired units at the Drax Power plant in North Yorkshire has failed.
Plans for the power plant have been approved despite concerns raised by environmental group ClientEarth. Lawyers for ClientEarth emphasised the power plant could account for 75% of the…
A High Court judge has dismissed an environmental campaign group’s opposition to the construction of two new gas-fired units at the Drax Power plan in North Yorkshire.
The group ClientEarth argued that former BEIS secretary Andrea Leadsom had “effectively ignored” the UK’s net zero carbon emissions commitment when she granted the…
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