Drax slapped with £25m penalty for misreporting sustainability data

On the back of the findings, plant owner Drax Power Limited has agreed to pay £25m under Ofgem’s Voluntary Redress Fund. An investigation carried out by the energy regulator found that Drax had failed to comply with its obligations under the Renewables Obligation Order (ROO). Ofgem said that ‘an absence of adequate data governance and controls’ had resulted in Drax misreporting data in relation to their annual profiling submission for compliance period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 (CP20).

According to Ofgem, Drax could not provide ‘sufficient evidence’ to show how its CP20 annual profiling submission had been arrived at and was unable to support the reliability of its profiling data reporting of forestry type and sawlogs for Canadian consignments for that same period. Drax has accepted the findings of the investigation and agreed to re-report its CP20 annual profiling submission in respect of forestry type and saw log proportions.