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About Drax
Drax is a biomass power station near Selby in North Yorkshire. It has generated from biomass since 2013. Units 1 to 4 burn biomass (compressed wood pellets); the site's three small gas turbines are counted here too.
Its 2,737 MW of registered generating capacity is spread across 7 balancing mechanism units. Every half hour each unit tells the grid how much it will generate (its physical notification): that is the live figure above, and GridMonkey records it every half hour for the chart.
Biomass stations burn wood pellets or other plant material instead of fossil fuel. The two biggest, Drax and Lynemouth, were coal-fired until they were converted.
| Type | Biomass |
|---|---|
| Registered capacity | 2,737 MW |
| Generating from biomass since | 2013 (DUKES 5.11) |
| Area | North Yorkshire |
| Location | Near Selby in North Yorkshire 53.736° N, 0.991° W |
| Owner or operator | Drax |
| Elexon lead party | Drax Power Ltd |
| BM units | T_DRAXX-1 665 MW (BIOMASS), T_DRAXX-10G 33 MW (OCGT), T_DRAXX-12G 32 MW (OCGT), T_DRAXX-2 669 MW (BIOMASS), T_DRAXX-3 661 MW (BIOMASS), T_DRAXX-4 645 MW (BIOMASS), T_DRAXX-9G 32 MW (OCGT) |
| Size | The largest of the 6 biomass power stations on GridMonkey's list |
Other biomass power stations
- Lynemouth 420 MW, Northumberland
- Tees Renewable Energy Plant 285 MW, Teesside
- Wilton 182 MW, Teesside
- Markinch 61 MW, Fife
- Tilbury Green 43 MW, Essex
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Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026 (licence). Station names, areas and owners or operators come from GridMonkey's own table, matched to the units in Elexon's register; a station's output here is its physical notification, not metered generation. Biomass date and location: Power stations in the United Kingdom (DUKES 5.11) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, May 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.