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Drax Group plc
UK power utility that converted coal units to burn imported wood pellets; also a major pellet producer.
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Did you know2024
Drax is the other end of the wood-pellet chain — the UK's largest power station, which converted from coal to burning wood pellets, consuming millions of tonnes a year, much of it shipped from the US Southeast (the Enviva trade). It's the single biggest reason the transatlantic biomass-pellet supply chain exists, and it runs on large UK renewable-energy subsidies that classify burning wood as "renewable." So the forest-to-furnace chain — North American forest → pellet mill → ocean freighter → Drax → the UK grid — is essentially built around one power station's subsidized appetite for wood, and Drax has even vertically integrated, buying its own pellet plants in the US and Canada. A single UK utility effectively anchors a global supply chain in wood fiber, and the whole edifice depends on the political decision to treat biomass as clean — exactly the classification that Enviva's collapse and the environmental critique call into question. Pull the subsidy or change the carbon rules, and the entire chain unwinds.
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