Why ‘the UK’s biggest carbon emitter’ receives billions in green subsidies

The UK government will decide on whether to extend a subsidy scheme which pays Drax about £500m a year.

2024-09-09  1171  困难

But this power plant’s green revolution is not without its sceptics. Green groups and climate scientists insist Drax remains the largest single source of carbon emissions in the UK, and that its FTSE 250 owners should not have been allowed to claim billions of pounds in renewable energy subsidies – more than £7bn in bill-payer-backed subsidies since work began to convert it to run on biomass in 2012.

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