Drax to pay £25m after regulator finds wood pellet reporting failures
by Kalyeena Makortoff from on (#6QAYX)
Energy regulator's investigation found inadequate data governance' over sourcing of wood to fuel power station
The power generator Drax has agreed to pay 25m after the energy industry regulator found it had submitted inaccurate data on the sourcing of wood pellets used at its massive plant in North Yorkshire.
An investigation by Ofgem, which was launched last year, concluded there was an absence of adequate data governance and controls in place" when it came to profiling the sources of wood used by Drax from Canada between April 2021 and the end of March 2022. This kind of profiling data is used to determine, for example, whether wood pellets had come from sawmills or forests.
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