Drax is fully committed to developing a UK biomass market and is convinced of the value of strategic partnerships that build prosperity for everyone and help promote environmental benefits.

Co-firing with biomass fuels provides many benefits to the environment and the economy:

• It is a low cost, efficient renewable technology
• It directly replaces coal burning, so reducing CO₂ emissions
• It makes an important contribution towards meeting the Government’s target on the use of renewables in electricity generation
• Development of an energy crop market is good for UK farming, forestry, recreation and the countryside

To help deliver these benefits we need to work together now to source biomass supplies, and establish crops and forestry for harvest over the next two years.