Drax has plans to build 3 biomass power plants in Britain by teaming up with Siemens and using its turbines in a £2bn project. Drax, the operator of the biggest power station in Britain is responding to new green regulations and high environmental targets.

Drax’s coal-fired power station in Yorkshire produces 4,000 megawatts of electricity which is 7% of the UK’s total supply. The proposed three biomass-fuelled power plants would generate 300 megawatts each.

Well known German engineering company Siemens will build these plants for Drax. Construction is slated to begin in 2010 while plants would start generating power from 2014. Drax, which would own 60%, is confident of getting attractive returns from the project that is estimated to cost £2bn.

Two of the three plants will be in Hull and Immingham, Yorkshire. Location of a third plant though not decided yet is likely to be next to Drax’s existing plant in Yorkshire.

The existing Drax power station has already introduced biomass technology to benefit from the lower cost of materials such as forestry residue, sunflower seed, straw, and peanut husks which are required to be imported on bigger scale.

Siemens’ turbine technology would be deployed in generation of power.

The move by Drax comes in the wake of UK’s plans to generate 10% of electricity from renewable resources by 2010. The UK is one of the biggest polluters of environment and is targeting to reduce carbon emissions by 80%.

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