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It's the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (since applied by the UK Government after Britain left the EU) which counts electricity generated using biomass as renewable energy. It's not a UK thing specifically.

It's also worth looking at the BECCS report by Forum for the Future (FFTF). They go into the details of Drax's feedstock and conclude that it's much less of a problem than meets the eye (i.e., more sustainable than some suggest).

https://carbonrisk.substack.com/p/backing-beccs

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