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Renewable energy pioneer Drax has welcomed over 100 businesses, prospective suppliers and local communities to an event for the planned expansion project at Cruachan Pumped Storage Hydro Power Station. Organised in collaboration with NOF, a not-for-profit UK membership organisation helping to connec

Renewable energy company Drax has announced funding grants to 48 organisations including 12 across Scotland, in the communities where Drax operates. The donations, which range from £750 to £2,000, are for community-led projects that support STEM education and skills, promote safety and h

Ofgem has closed its investigation into Drax Power Limited after opening the investigation in May this year to learn whether the firm was in breach of annual profiling reporting requirements relating to the Renewables Obligations (RO) scheme and other related matters. The investigation focussed

Drax Group has launched a new £30,000 transport fund to help schools to organise visits to Drax’s sites around the UK. The new fund supports the work Drax’s charitable entity, Drax Foundation, does to get young people to develop their science technology engineering and maths (STEM)

Exploratory groundworks at the site of what would be the UK’s first pumped storage scheme to be developed in 40 years are underway on the slopes of Ben Cruachan, near Oban.

Renewable energy firm Drax Group has announced the support it will provide to community organisations local to its operations though its new Community Fund, launched in 2023.

The Drax Foundation, the charitable entity of renewable energy company Drax Group, has awarded £82,000 to two projects in Scotland. Ember Aquatics and ACT Native Tree Nursery are the two successful recipients of the second annual round of funding from the Drax Foundation. Both projects support

Unite has secured enhanced bonus pay for more than 500 engineering and construction workers at Drax power station. The workers are employed by Drax contractors Altrad and TEI.

The Drax Foundation, which is the corporate foundation of the renewable energy company Drax Group, has announced a new grant of £150,000 for Energy Sparks, an energy education charity that works with schools. The new funding will enable Bath-based Energy Sparks to ensure that up to 240 schools

Engineering consulting group COWI has been awarded a contract by renewable energy company Drax to provide consultancy services to support works in advance of the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the expansion of an existing pumped storage hydro-electric generation station located beneath Ben

The Scottish Government’s cabinet secretary for energy, Neil Gray MSP, has called on the UK government to give developers the certainty they need to invest in a new generation of pumped storage hydro plants, a move which could create almost 15,000 jobs and enable more renewable electricity to

Energy firm Drax Group has received approval from the Scottish Government to construct a new £500 million underground pumped storage hydro plant at its existing Cruachan facility in Argyll. The decision, made through the Section 36 process, represents a significant step in Scotland's journey t

Six projects currently under development in Scotland will more than double the UK’s pumped storage hydro capacity to 7.7GW, create almost 15,000 jobs and generate up to £5.8 billion for the UK economy by 2035, a report by Scottish Renewables and BiGGAR Economics has found. ‘The Eco

Renewable energy firm Drax has taken a significant step forward in its plans to build Britain’s first new pumped storage hydro plant in almost 40 years by breaking ground on some preliminary works. Exploratory ground investigations are now underway at its existing Cruachan facility in Scotland

Renewable energy company Drax has kick-started a £2 million refurbishment of the historic Tongland hydroelectric power station in the south of Scotland. Tongland power station, near Kirkcudbright, is part of the Galloway Hydro Scheme which was developed in the 1930s. The scheme has six power s