2023 report shows Drax power station, UK's largest carbon emitter, produced 11.5m tonnes of CO2, contributing nearly 3% of national emissions.

Drax power station, the UK's largest carbon emitter, produces 4x more emissions than the country's last surviving coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar. Ember think tank's report reveals that Drax, which generates 8% of the UK's renewable electricity by burning wood pellets from North America, released 11.5m tonnes of CO2 in 2023, accounting for almost 3% of the nation's total carbon emissions. Activists staged protests and arrests at the power station, calling it an obstacle to net-zero emissions.

August 11, 2024
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