The Biomass Carbon Calculator
Drax is developing world-leading policies and tools to create greater clarity and transparency across the biomass industry, including a new carbon calculator to help businesses calculate their supply chain emissions.
About the calculator
Bioenergy can only be considered a low carbon, sustainable solution when it can be evidenced that significant GHG emission savings to alternative technologies are delivered on a lifecycle basis, considering emissions across the entire supply chain. It is therefore important that the lifecycle emissions of biomass are calculated and reported both accurately and transparently.
The ‘Biomass Carbon Calculator’ is a greenhouse gas lifecycle emission tool developed by Drax that allows accurate calculation of wood pellet supply chain GHG emissions in accordance with UK and EU regulations. The tool is aligned to standard industry reporting units, providing an intuitive and user-friendly platform. The Calculator further supports users looking to estimate lifecycle emissions for complex supply chains, allowing simultaneous modelling of up to 20 different feedstocks and 10 different distribution routes for a single biomass production plant.
To ensure the Calculator meets the needs of stakeholders and regulators, Drax has previously held an open consultation on the Calculator, the details of which can be found here.
Following consultation, we considered all feedback and published an amended version of the Calculator and accompanying User Guide alongside a summary of responses.
The tool has since been independently verified against the methodologies laid out in the UK Renewables Obligation and Annex VI of the EU Renewable Energy Directive recast.
