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    • Battery energy storage system (BESS)
    • AI data centres
    • Pumped Storage Hydro
      • Cruachan Power Station
    • Hydro-electric schemes
    • Biomass
    • Carbon Removals
      • UK BECCS
      • BECCS at Drax: the process
      • Elimini
    • Drax Power Station
      • Support mechanism for Drax Power Station
    • Daldowie Fuel Plant
    • Open Cycle Gas Turbines (OCGTs)
    • Drax Energy Solutions
    • Pellet Sales
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      • Catchment Area Analyses
      • The Biomass Carbon Calculator
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      • ESG Performance Report
      • Materiality
    • Evidence hub
      • BECCS Done Well
      • Independent Advisory Board on Sustainable Biomass
    • Reporting and Performance
      • Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosures
      • EU Taxonomy
      • Climate Transition Plan
      • ESG Ratings
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The men who built a power station inside a mountain

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Need for carbon pricing clarity at the first ‘Net Zero Budget’

Moving of transformers from Longanett to Cruachan
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From coal to pumped hydro storage in 83 mountainous miles

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A brief history of Scottish hydropower

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Could Great Britain go off grid?

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In energy storage timing is everything

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Britain’s power system has never been closer to being fossil-free

Iain Staffell

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How the market decides where Great Britain gets its electricity from

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