company:drax

Smart Green Shipping Alliance partners with Drax and Ultrabulk to cut shipping supply chain emissions - Drax
▻https://www.drax.com/press_release/smart-green-shipping-alliance-partners-drax-ultrabulk-cut-shipping-supply-chai

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Drax, operator of the UK’s largest power station, is partnering with the Smart Green Shipping Alliance (SSGA), leading dry bulk cargo transporter Ultrabulk, and Humphreys Yacht Design, naval architects of Dame Ellen McArthur’s ‘Kingfisher’ yacht, to tackle the mounting issue of CO2 emissions from the shipping industry.

A £100,000 12-month feasibility study funded by InnovateUK, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and private investors has begun, which will examine the potential of fitting an innovative sail technology called Fastrig onto Ultrabulk ships importing biomass into the UK, for cutting both carbon emissions and costs.

BBC - Future - The giant coal plant converting to green energy
▻http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180821-the-giant-coal-plant-converting-to-green-energy

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On the train to visit one of the last places in Britain that burns coal for electricity, I pass three solar farms soaking up sunshine. I also pass a coal plant called Eggborough that has all but ceased operations. No steam rises from its giant cooling towers. It will shut in September.

But the coal plant I’m visiting is different. It’s named Drax, after a local village, and is the largest power plant in Western Europe. By 2023, its owners plan to stop burning coal entirely. They hope that instead their plant will consume only natural gas and biomass – wood pellets crushed into powder.

#électricité #énergie #énergie_verte #reconversion #royaume_uni

Norway confirms $900bn sovereign wealth fund’s major coal divestment | Environment | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/05/norways-pension-fund-to-divest-8bn-from-coal-a-new-analysis-shows

Merci à mon informatrice qui se ballade entre Montreal, New York et Paris.

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Parliament’s move come as analysis shows largest fossil fuel divestment yet will affect 122 companies across the world, including SSE and Drax in the UK
aerial view of Drax Power Station near Selby in North Yorkshire
Norway’s pension fund is set to sell $49m stake in Drax, which runs UK’s biggest coal-fired power station, above, in Selby, north Yorkshire.

Norway’s parliament has formally endorsed the move to sell off coal investments from its $900bn sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest.

It is the largest fossil fuel divestment yet, affecting 122 companies across the world, and marking a new success for the fast-growing and UN-backed climate change campaign.

#norvège #fond_souverain #environnement #charbon #climat

Yorkshire carbon capture power plant gets EU funding
▻http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/08/yorkshire-drax-carbon-capture-power-plant

Drax, the operator of Britain’s biggest power station, has secured up to €300m (£238m) of European Union funding to build a power plant whose carbon dioxide emissions will be trapped and buried deep beneath the North Sea.

The new plant will be built on land next to Drax’s existing power station near Selby in Yorkshire. It will burn enough coal for 630,000 homes and 90% of its CO2 will be transported by pipeline for permanent storage under the North Sea.

The project, called White Rose, is a joint venture between Drax, Alstom and BOC and is the first large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the EU. White Rose will capture and bury the plant’s CO2 with transport and storage provided by National Grid.

Les autres projets retenus par le programme #NER300 de l’UE :
▻http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-465_en.htm

#séquestration_carbone #énergies_renouvelables #Union_Européenne