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drax-to-pilot-europes-first-carbon-capture-storage-project

Drax to pilot Europe’s first carbon capture storage project

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Energy firm Drax is to pilot the first bioenergy carbon capture storage (BECCS) project of its kind in Europe.

If successful, this project could make the renewable electricity produced at Drax’s power station in North Yorkshire, UK, carbon negative.

BECCS is vital to global efforts to combat climate change because the technology will mean the gases that cause global warning can be removed from the atmosphere at the same time as electricity is produced. This means power generation would no longer contribute to climate change but would start to reduce the carbon accumulating in the atmosphere.

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