Click here to download the briefing German version of the report Summary The EP holding (EPH) is one of Europe’s largest investors in climate-damaging energy, primarily in fossil fuels, but also in wood-fired power plants in Germany, the UK, the Czech Republic,...
Lynemouth Power
Lynemouth Power Station: A smaller version of Drax
Lynemouth Power Station, owned by the Czech energy company EPH, is the second biggest biomass plant in the UK after Drax and one of the biggest in the world. The power station burns up to 1.5 million tonnes of wood every year. The majority of the wood is sourced from...
UK: END BIOMASS SUBSIDIES – MP Pledge
MPs - How can you support? Not an MP but a constituent? Please click here to write to your MP about this pledge. In 2018, the government effectively ended future subsidy for burning wood for electricity, sending the clear message that this is no longer...
Joint Open Letter opposing new Contracts for Difference for coal-to-biomass conversions
Open Letter by the Wood Panel Industries Federation, NRDC, Dogwood Alliance, Biofuelwatch, Friends of the Earth, Southern Environmental Law Center, Norbord, and Fern to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, calling for coal-to-biomass...