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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Organised by the Wood Heat Association and the Renewable Energy Association, Wood Heat 2016 brings together all parts of the UK biomass heat and CHP industry in a unique event…
BGI & Barclays invite you to a farm diversification event on Wednesday 5th October – 2-5 pm Demonstrations include: Managing hedgerow cuttings to produce energy Multi-fuel biomass boilers Biomass drying…
