The company Drax Group said its Canadian wood pellet plant, may still continue to produce pellets in Canada, but these will be exported to third-party buyers, primarily in Asia.
https://www.businessenergydeals.co.uk/blog/drax-biomass-powe...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/26/drax-pow...
Then, once it became clear that the plan to source from the UK wasn't going to work, they claimed the subsidies should continue to enable them to fit CCS kit. Needless to say, that also hasn't happened.
Taken separately, you could probably squint a bit and say that either scheme was fair enough - worth trying, if only as a minor hedge against unexpected problems with more promising renewables + storage schemes. But taken together, it's hard to ignore the pattern of repeated failures wrapped in endless dissembling.
Time to pull the plug and turn the site (and its huge grid connections) into a giant battery storage array with a bit of useful solar draped over the top.
" Drax power station is likely to remain the UK’s largest emitter out to 2030. Although Drax generation is due to halve from 2027, Drax will continue to emit more CO2e than the second-largest emitter. "
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/uks-largest-emitter...
The giant battery storage array would probably come from batteries made in China, another big CO2 emitter.