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The Carbon Impacts of UK Electricity Produced by Burning Wood Pellets from Drax’s Three U.S. Mills

Author: Spatial Informatics Group

Date: 2019

Location: Array

Language: English

Type of resource: NGO Report

Topics: Carbon accounting

Carbon life cycle assessment of wood pellets used by Drax power station in the UK from three plantations in the United States. It concludes that it would take at least 40 years to reach "carbon parity" and that emissions would be much higher than from renewable sources.

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