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Drax Group plc

Business / industry · Energy · HQ: United Kingdom · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, Drax Group plc appears in 9 declared MEP meetings (9 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

9
declared meetings
with current MEPs
9
MEPs met
€900,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
1.6
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Drax Group is a flexible and renewable energy company that owns and operates a portfolio of assets in the UK. These include Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire (sustainable biomass), Cruachan Power Station in Argyll and Bute (pumped storage hydro) and the Lanark and Galloway hydro-electric schemes (run-of-river) in southwest Scotland. Drax has also acquired three ready-to-build battery energy storage…”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 9 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party444%
Renew Europe333%
Socialists & Democrats222%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2023–2025. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (7 in 2025).

2023
1
2024
1
2025
7

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Elsi Katainen
1 meeting · Renew
Dan-Ştefan Motreanu
1 meeting · EPP
Eero Heinäluoma
1 meeting · S&D
Barry Andrews
1 meeting · Renew
Bruno Tobback
1 meeting · S&D

The 9 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
7 Nov 2025Elsi KatainenBECCS and carbon credits
4 Nov 2025Niels Flemming HansenBioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage
30 Jun 2025Barry AndrewsRenewable Energy
26 Jun 2025Eero HeinäluomaDecarbonization of Energy Sector
19 May 2025Dan-Ştefan MotreanuBECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage)
19 Mar 2025Aura SallaClean Industrial Deal and related policies
15 Jan 2025Bruno TobbackCarbon Capture and negative emission technologies for biomass
11 Nov 2024João Cotrim de FigueiredoPellets & Wood industry
26 Apr 2023Seán KellyFit for 55 Package

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