£10 added to UK energy bills to support wood-burning firm Drax

£10 added to UK energy bills to support wood-burning firm Drax

British households paid around £10 each, on average, on their energy bills last year to support a controversial wood-burning power station.

Drax, whose biomass facility in North Yorkshire is the UK’s largest power station, received £869 million from public subsidies in 2024, according to an analysis by campaigners.

The support, which is needed because the power station is not economically viable without green energy subsidies, is equivalent to more than £2 million a day. The company reported record profits of almost £1.1 billion last year.

The subsidy figures, based on scrutiny of the firm’s annual report by the anti-biomass think tank Ember, came as protesters interrupted a biomass conference where the firm was speaking.

Drax power station to get £2bn subsidy despite green-energy row

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