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Make your own biomass willow rods and cuttings? Please leave it to the experts

Kevin Lindegaard 17 January 2019

Once in a while a customer enquires whether they can use material that they have already planted to plant new areas. The answer is no. This is because that all…

I have seen the future of biomass willow and its name is RR09043

Kevin Lindegaard 27 September 2018

Back in 1974 music critic Jon Landau went to a concert and then wrote an influential article in which he claimed “I saw rock and roll’s future and its name…

Brexit – what are the implications on the UK bioenergy sector?

Kevin Lindegaard 13 September 2018

BREXIT will have a massive impact on many industries in the UK and biomass heating is no exception. In this blog I gaze into the crystal ball and try and…

Could timber shortage lead to boom time for energy crops?

Kevin Lindegaard 17 August 2018

Last year we reported on a Europe wide timber shortage and the reasons for this. This led to massive increases in the price of biomass fuels, particularly wood pellets. As…

Heat Wave, World Cup and Wimbledon – why on Earth should you be thinking about the winter and willows?

Kevin Lindegaard 2 July 2018

It’s scorchio at the moment – has been for two weeks and looks like staying that way for another fortnight at least. Then there are the distractions of the World…

Biomass Suppliers List – Getting sustainability accreditation for more unusual woody fuels

Kevin Lindegaard 13 April 2018

Around 95% of Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) biomass projects use woodfuels (as opposed to non-wood fuels). Of these, a large majority comprise wood chip, wood pellets and logs that are…

Forests, bioenergy and climate change mitigation: are the worries justified?

Kevin Lindegaard 16 January 2018

Following the letter printed on the Crops for Energy website last week another group of 13 scientists have also signed an open letter on this subject. The letter is printed…

Guardian Article – “EU must not burn the world’s forests for ‘renewable’ energy” – a response from pro bioenergy academics and conservationists

Kevin Lindegaard 15 December 2017

Every month or so there seems to be another “new” article stating that cutting down trees and burning them for bioenergy is bad. The latest instalment of this long running…

SRF Eucalyptus – open day in Cornwall – additional date announced

Kevin Lindegaard 7 December 2017

If you want to see an award winning plantation of Eucalyptus grown as Short Rotation Forestry (SRF) then you should head down to Cornwall in January. Bryan Elliott of Eucalyptus…

Increasing UK biomass production through more productive use of land – new report published

Kevin Lindegaard 8 August 2017

A new report summarising over 5 years of work commissioned by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has concluded that the UK should be capable of growing around 1.4 million hectares…

New report calls for more planting of Miscanthus and Short Rotation Coppice for Sustainable Biofuel production

Kevin Lindegaard 14 July 2017

A new report by the Royal Academy of Engineering has called for more planting of perennial energy crops such as Short Rotation Coppice (SRC), Miscanthus and Switchgrass for second generation…

Watch the Wood Heat Association & UK Pellet Council’s video on woodfuel sustainability

Kevin Lindegaard 1 December 2016

This short ( 1 minute) video produced by the Wood Heat Association (WHA) and the UK Pellet Council (UKPC) simply shows the sustainability credentials of woodfuel. Most woodfuel comes from…

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