Drax Power is hoping a report on ‘whole system’ costs for different technologies, commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), will make the case for converting its second group of three units from coal to biomass fuel.
Macquarie Capital and Macquarie’s Commodities and Financial Markets group have agreed to support financing MGT Power’s £650 million Teesside Renewable Energy Plant.
James Busche, chief executive of Uskmouth Power, talks about regulatory uncertainty and biomass
The European Commission has opened an investigation into whether the UK breached State Aid rules by agreeing a Contract for Difference that would enable the owner of Lynemouth power plant to convert it to use wood fuel.
Should the UK expand its focus from building a domestic wind industry to becoming a leader in other renewable energy projects? That was what Blair Lavoie, president of MWH Constructors, MWH Global suggested as the company hosted a visit by energy
The government is seeking to remove guarantees over the subsidy awarded to fossil plants that switch to burning biomass for all or part of their power.