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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Business
Emily Beament

Further subsidies to wood-burning power plant ‘deeply concerning’

The Drax power station in North Yorkshire burns biomass (Anna Gowthorpe/PA) - (PA Archive)

Environmentalists have raised concerns over news that wood-burning power station Drax will continue to receive subsidies but welcomed a reduction in payments.

The Government has announced that from 2027, when the existing payments for the North Yorkshire biomass power plant are due to run out, a new support scheme will come into effect until 2031 which reduces electricity generation, halves subsidies and imposes new sustainability requirements.

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