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UK BECCS subsidy adjustment

Jurisdiction countryUnited Kingdom
Instrument typeprocurement
Authoritygovernment
PathwaysBioenergy with carbon capture and storage
Scopecarbon removal and point-source capture
Statusin-force
DetailNew agreement whereby low carbon dispatchable power is only used when needed. Drax's two BECCS units could remove 8Mt of CO2 annually.
Monetary noteUK government halved subsidies to Drax power station
Stated statusin-force
Pathway scopespecific
Pathway notesubsidy adjustment specifically concerns Drax's BECCS units removing CO2
automatically extracted from the cited source; not yet reviewed by a person · discovered via carbon-removal-updates · extracted 2026-08-24

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