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Why Wood?

• Carbon Neutral – Doesn’t contribute to global warming.

• Under-used resource in need of management

• Management of woodlands improves woodland biodiversity

Why wood heating?

• Cost effective

• Keeps money in local economy

• Low emissions

Latest News

Part L of the new building regulations is proving hard to reach and developers are finding a biomass boiler is their most cost effective way to meet the new rules.

Using logs or wood chips as a fuel can provide central heating which is cheaper than using oil, LPG or electricity, and grants help make the initial cost much more attractive. Modern automatic wood fuelled boilers are easy to use, reliable, efficient and clean burning and with the wide range available means that they can be used in virtually any property from a farmhouse or business unit to a country manor house or industrial process.

Many farms and estates have areas of neglected woodland and installing a wood fuelled boiler can allow the farm to be self-sufficient in heating fuel whilst improving the financial and environmental value of the woodland. Small businesses that produce waste wood can avoid disposing of it by turning it into fuel to heat their buildings or processes.

Production of woodfuel is an important and growing market for low grade wood, driving the management of our neglected broadleaved woodlands.

There is a nationwide wood fuelled boiler grant scheme through the 'low carbon buildings' programme open to all householders and community organisations.
 

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