Wood Energy, UK, wood fuel heating

Wood Energy is one of the UK's leading wood-fuel heating businesses, providing over a third of the country's total wood heat capacity and saving almost 12,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year through its boiler installations. Based in Devon, the company helped to set up the UK's only accredited wood-fuel training course for the industry to help raise standards. It has also worked hard to ensure a reliable supply of fuel for the heating systems it installs, by supporting local wood-fuel supply businesses and pellet mills. Benefiting from the growing demand for wood-fuel -- which is now cheaper than fossil fuels -- the business is helping the UK meet its carbon reduction targets.

Wood (Log) Gasification Boilers explained

Explains how wood gasification (log burning) boilers work, featuring boilers from Swedish company Varmebaronen

Kingspan Lighthouse

A short video that delves into the technology and thought process that went into the development of the UKs first Code level six (net-zero-carbon) house and the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH).

Biomass Engineering

a video showing our Dortmund plant running on clean wood. This site is a 500kw CHP

BioRegional Development Group, UK, Wood-chip from waste

The BioRegional Development Group has established a 'TreeStation' -- a centre where waste wood is received from many sources, turned into wood-chip and delivered for use as a heating fuel. Until recently, their site capacity was about 2,500 tonnes per year, but a new chipper has increased this to 15,000 tonnes per year.

Legislation in the London Borough of Croydon and other boroughs requires all significant new building developments to generate 10% of their energy from on-site renewable sources. Biomass heating is one of the most cost-effective ways to do this, but requires a reliable supply of fuel. The London boroughs do have a considerable resource of fuelwood from the management of parks, gardens and woodland, but much of the waste produced is currently sent to landfill, at a cost of about £40 per tonne.

The BioRegional Development Group brokered an innovative deal between tree surgery business, City Suburban Tree Surgeons Ltd, and Croydon Council to manage and dispose of all the Council's wood waste. BioRegional established a TreeStation -- a centre where waste wood is received from many sources, turned into wood-chip and delivered for use as a fuel for heating and combined heat-and-power. Until recently, the TreeStation had produced about 2,500 tonnes of wood-chip per year for a single customer, Slough Heat and Power, who supply heat and electricity to Slough Estates and use an increasing amount of wood in their fuel supply. With recent equipment, the TreeStation now has the capacity to process 15,000 tonnes per year. BioRegional is also setting up drying facilities so that the wood-chip will have lower moisture content, and so be suitable for a wide range of boilers.

Combined Heat and Power Biomass Gasifier

The Combined Heat and Power Biomass Gasifier at University of East Anglia will be fired by woodchips from sustainable sources in Norfolk and will have the effect of reducing UEA's carbon emssions by over 30%. It will open in late 2009 and tours are available.

20% renewable energy by 2020

Raising the share of renewable energy from 8.5% to 20% in the overall energy consumption is a necessary contribution to the global fight against climate change and towards better control over our energy dependence. The various uses of renewable energy are examined: electricity through wind and hydraulic energies; electricity or heat through geothermal and solar energies; electricity, heat, and biofuel coming from biomass. The EU is a world leader in the use and deployment of technologies that exploit renewable energy sources