Drax Group

Drax Group plc is a UK-based global renewable and flexible generation energy company, delivering renewable energy solutions through engineering, technology and innovation. Headquartered in Selby, it operates in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Japan, across the energy and power generation, renewable energy, sustainable biomass and forestry, and carbon capture and carbon removals sectors. In 2025 it ranked as the sixth largest source of power in the UK, the third largest source of dispatchable power and the second largest source of renewable energy.

The group's generation assets include Drax Power Station in Yorkshire, Cruachan Power Station in Scotland and Ffestiniog Power Station in Wales. It also produces sustainable biomass pellets - compressed wood pellets manufactured at facilities in the United States and Canada from sustainably managed working forests - and provides carbon dioxide removal through bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), expanded via its subsidiary Elimini.

Technical activity spans renewable energy generation, flexible power generation, sustainable biomass pellet production, BECCS and carbon dioxide removal, and engineering and technology innovation. Drax has stated an ambition to reach net zero across its value chain by the end of 2040, with an emphasis on sustainability and the decarbonisation of supply chains.