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Hull to host major event for firms seeking work on Drax's huge Net Zero project

Drax and partner Worley will present plans at May event

Inspection of the carbon capture pilot plant at Drax Power Station.(Image: Drax Group)

Hull is to provide the platform for British businesses to win work on one of the region’s largest decarbonisation projects.

The city is to host the first supplier event since Drax announced Worley as its engineering, procurement and construction partner on its huge bioenergy with carbon capture and storage plans.

The º£½ÇÊÓÆµ power giant will become the western anchor of the huge project to clean up the Humber industrial cluster, a start point for emission collection on a huge dual pipeline project involving hydrogen supply from Saltend and depleted oil and gas reservoirs under the North Sea.

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Hundreds of millions of pounds of contracts have been flagged up on the Drax site alone, with further details to be presented at an event at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel next month.

Graham Backhouse, Drax’s commercial director for the BECCS project, said: “We want to put British businesses at the heart of our plans to deliver BECCS, allowing them to benefit from hundreds of millions of pounds worth of new contracts.

“Negative emissions technologies like BECCS will play a vital role in enabling the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ to reach its net zero goals, as well as creating exciting opportunities for Britain to lead the world in a vital technology, creating a new sector of the economy, as well as export opportunities.

“Our programme of events is a great opportunity for businesses to get involved and learn more about the project – we encourage companies of all sizes across the region to come along and find out more about how they might benefit from the contracts available.”