The owner of the wooden Drax power plant should be forced to disclose all the details of his consumption of trees, argued the activists, while the deputies examine the billions of renewable energies that the North Yorkshire factory receives.
A delegated legislation committee will decide Monday to transmit government plans to extend the subsidies funded by Billpayer to the country’s biomass power generators, of which Drax is by far the most important.
Green activists have said that a condition for any extension should be that Drax has published a KPMG key report in its operations and its supply. The auditor’s reports have been provided to the government and the energy regulator ofgem but not to the public.
Ofgem said KPMG shows that Drax has not violated trees on trees to burn sustainable environmental forests.
However, in separate incidents, Drax had been proven to have provided inaccurate data for subsidies in the past, leading to a fine of 25 million pounds sterling. Media surveys have also found Drax using wood from old forests in the United States.
Drax is expected to receive more than 10 billion sterling pounds in renewable energies between 2012 and 2027, the current period of diet, according to the Thinktank EMPER.
Kingsmill Bond, an ESAGER energy strategist, said: “Burning Trees for Electricity is extremely ineffective and expensive, and is not effective in reducing climate change.
“The collapse of the price of solar energy, wind and batteries in the past five years means that combustion of electricity trees is now obsolete technology. Before paying a more subsidy in Drax, deputies must see the KMPG ratio on the origin of the wood. ”
Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, a green energy company, said: “If Drax does not spread about their operations, how can we trust them? They do not deserve other public funds.”
The government plans to halve the subsidies available for the production of biomass electricity as part of a revised regime from 2027. MPs of the delegated legislation committee should vote on Monday on the statutory instrument allowing this.
Almuth Ernsting, co-director of the Biofuelwatch campaign group, said: “If these subsidies are approved, this would lead to more carbon emissions, a more destructive commitment of the forests rich in fauna in the southeast of the United States and elsewhere, and more pollution suffered by communities living alongside the planting plants in this region-” environmental races “.”.
Mark Campanale, the founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, added: “At a time when renewable energies fed by the wind, solar energy with emergency batteries are exponentially developing in the world, it seems remarkable that the United Kingdom must still count on dirty combustion like Drax to reach its climatic targets. Instead of the import and combustion of wood, with all its associated emissions, the United Kingdom should be doubled on natural sources on natural sources for emissions and solar.
A Drax spokesman said: “In their investigation, Ofgem found no evidence that our biomass had not met the criteria of sustainability of RO [renewable obligation] diagram, nor that the rocks [renewable obligation certificates] We received for the renewable power that we produced had been incorrectly provided.
“Their new declaration on the reports we have ordered from KPMG, as well as previous comments in an audience of the Public Accounts Committee by the Director of the Audit and Compliance of Ofgem, confirm that they examined these documents in the context of their investigation and found no evidence in them that we were in violation of our sustainability obligations and therefore erroneous to receive funds from RO.”
The spokesperson added: “Drax provides secure renewable power to millions of houses and businesses when they need it, not only when the wind blows, or the sun shines. The science that underlies the generation of biomass is supported by the main climate experts in the United Kingdom climate, including the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Climate Change Committee of the United Kingdom. ”
A spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “We half write the quantity of support for Drax, saving money on people’s energy bills and contributing to our energy security. Drax will work for less time under a clean energy system and will have to use a 100%durable biomass of sustainable origin, with a penny of subsidy for nothing less. ”
The Guardian understands that there would be substantial sanctions for any violation of sustainability criteria.
