https://www.newpower.info/2023/07/drax-wins-permission-to-expand-lucrative-cruachan-pumped-storage-plant/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://www.newpower.info/2023/07/drax-wins-permission-to-expand-lucrative-cruachan-pumped-storage-plant/#comment-95882 James Sat, 29 Jul 2023 05:51:01 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=12642#comment-95882 Drax has hedged its portfolio – fire and water. Wildfire in the vicinity of its suppliers’ mills and forest tracts – already a formally declared supply chain cost – exposes “sustainable” biomass as greenwash. Managed, working forests (a euphemism for monoculture plantations) are less resilient to fire, pests etc than natural forest.

]]> https://www.newpower.info/2023/07/drax-wins-permission-to-expand-lucrative-cruachan-pumped-storage-plant/#comment-95881 Jack Spruill Fri, 28 Jul 2023 23:55:36 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=12642#comment-95881 Before Drax is allowed to extend its hand to receive one more UK government subsidy, there should be an independent engineering study of the net, net energy efficiency of this pumped-storage hydroelectricity scheme.

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