A new bioenergy with carbon capture storage (BECCS) pilot will get underway this Autumn at Drax Power Station.
It is hoped that the implementation of this new technology could deliver 16 million tonnes of negative emissions annually. This equates to a third of the negative emissions needed from BECCS for the UK to reach its zero-carbon targets by 2050.
The 12 month pilot, which will be ran by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, will capture around 300kg of carbon dioxide every day, in order to ensure it's technology is suitable for use with biomass gases at the Drax site.
President and CEO, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Kenji Terasawa, said: ''We are very proud to be a part of the BECCS pilot project with Drax. We firmly believe that our carbon capture technology would be able to contribute to the UK’s zero-carbon targets in a material way.''
Drax Group CEO, Will Gardiner, also commented: ''Our plans to develop groundbreaking BECCS at the power station in North Yorkshire will help to boost the UK’s economy following the Covid-19 crisis and support the development of a zero-carbon industrial cluster in the Humber region delivering clean growth and protecting thousands of jobs.''
