National Grid in talks with Drax to revive coal-fired units

Two units at North Yorkshire plant could be brought out of retirement to prevent winter outages

National Grid has held talks with Drax over bringing two coal-fired units at its vast power plant in North Yorkshire out of retirement to prevent power cuts this winter.

The grid’s electricity system operator (ESO) has discussed possibly restarting the two units, which were shut this year after 50 years of coal-fired power generation at the Selby site.