Drax Group finance chief to retire after three years with power generator The chief financial officer of power generation business Drax Group is standing down and retiring from corporate life next year.
Transition: Once Western Europe's biggest coal-fired power station, the Drax plant in North Yorkshire stopped using coal in 2023, nearly 50 years after it started generating power.
Once Western Europe's biggest coal-fired power station, the Drax plant in North Yorkshire stopped using coal in 2023, nearly 50 years after it started generating power.
Drax is now one of the world's largest biomass power plants, generating enough electricity to meet around 6 per cent of the UK's power needs.
Drax burns millions of tonnes of wood pellets every year at its power plant, about 80 per cent of which are imported from forests in the US and Canada.
