Drax is enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future Drax Group is a renewable energy company engaged in renewable power generation, the production of sustainable biomass and the sale of renewable electricity to businesses. Drax operates a generation portfolio of sustainable biomass, hydro-electric and pumped hydro storage assets across four sites in England and Scotland. It is the UK’s largest source of renewable electricity. The company also operates a global…
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Drax is enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future
Drax Group is a renewable energy company engaged in renewable power generation, the production of sustainable biomass and the sale of renewable electricity to businesses.
Drax operates a generation portfolio of sustainable biomass, hydro-electric and pumped hydro storage assets across four sites in England and Scotland. It is the UK’s largest source of renewable electricity. The company also operates a global bioenergy supply business with manufacturing facilities at 13 sites in the United States and Canada, producing compressed wood pellets for its own use and for customers in Europe and Asia.
The Group employs 3,400 people in the UK and North America.
Enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future is Drax Group’s purpose and in 2019, it announced a world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030, using Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technology to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere at scale whilst delivering reliable renewable electricity.
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58,444
People associated on LinkedIn
2,022
Reported office locations
Drax Power Station, Selby, North Yorkshire YO8 8PH, GB
Business categories
Renewable Energy
Energy
Electrical Distribution
Power Grid
Other recorded names
Drax Group
Specialties
Biomass
Sustainable Energy
Electricity Generation
Renewable Energy
Engineering
Science
Power
Electricity
Innovation
Grid Storage
Hydro
Gas
B2B energy supply
Forestry
Sustainability
Energy storage
Energy
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Reported total investment
809,694,912
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