On my high-power charging station in my garage, I can get 100 miles of charge in about an hour.

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Nowadays, the grass grows shin-high within the power station's security fence, the paintwork is peeling and the cement crumbling.

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Drax will get 10% of its fuel from British sources like these and there's a high-walled maze at the power station of blocks of chopped miscanthus next to high mounds of shredded willow.

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Ride south for about one-and-a-half kilometres and you will reach the Bauhaus-inspired facade of the Reading Power Station, iconic in its 1930s styling and its 150m-high chimney.

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