Argus Biomass Conference

Name: Argus Biomass Conference
Start: 2025-04-01T00:00:00Z
End: 2025-04-03T00:00:00Z
Location: London, UK

London, UK

1-3 April 2025

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Site visit – An inside look at Drax Power Station

Join us on a tour of Drax Power Station – the largest decarbonisation project in Europe.

The site visit will explore topics including:

Coal to biomass conversion
Biomass sustainability
Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

Add the Drax Power Station site visit on Monday 31 March 2025 to your main conference pass. Available on a first-come-first-served basis and capped at 30 passes, places will book fast! Register today to avoid disappointment.

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: FutureMetrics
FutureMetrics is the leading global consultancy in the wood pellet sector. FutureMetrics provides information, analysis, operations guidance, due diligence services, and strategic advice to many of the world’s leading companies who are in the wood pellet sector, or who are considering entering the sector. FutureMetrics combines deep operational expertise, powerful sector focused financial modeling skills, and thought leading market awareness.
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"Drax Power Station provides 11% of the UK’s renewable power"

NEW: Drax Power Station site visit

Drax Power Station has been keeping the lights on in the UK for half a century and this year (2024) marks the Power Station’s 50th anniversary.

Drax Power Station was once the largest coal fired power station in Western Europe, but as the world woke up to effects to climate change in the 21st Century, Drax converted its coal fired units to biomass and became the single largest source of renewable energy in the UK.

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Your site visit add-on pass includes:

Transportation and transfer to and from Drax Power Station in Selby, North Yorkshire
Lunch onsite
A tour of the Drax Power Station, including a presentation from Drax

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Learn more: Drax Power Station

Drax is set to be one of the first power stations in the world to be fitted with BECCS – bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. BECCS is the most scalable negative emissions technology available today to remove Co2 from the atmosphere.

It’s a project that can put the UK and Yorkshire at the forefront of the fight against climate change and help position the UK as a world leader in carbon removal technology.
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Key facts

Power generation

Drax Power Station provides 11% of the UK’s renewable power, providing a secure, reliable and flexible source of renewable energy to support more intermittent renewables, such as wind and solar.

Location - Selby, North Yorkshire

The site near Selby in North Yorkshire provides the most renewable power of any single location in the UK, some 14 terawatt-hours (TWh) or enough electricity to power the equivalent of five million homes.

Biomass usage

The use of biomass pellets reduces carbon emissions by 80% compared to coal.

Biomass fired units

The station includes 4 x 645MW biomass fired units and produces around 14 terawatt-hours (TWh).

Supporting the local area

Drax Power Station is vital to the regional economy with more than 700 people employed at the plant throughout the year and it supports over 4,200 jobs in Yorkshire and the Humber area.

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