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 fuel boiler at RJ Mitchell Primary School

Tom Vosper, the Biomass Project Manager at Creative Environmental Networks, describes how the carbon neutral wood pellet boiler at RJ Mitchell Primary School works, in the Borough of Havering in London. It's a Gilles boiler supplied by Broag, and installed by AC Preou of Romford. It's a great example of a retrofit solution to seriously mitigate climate change causing emissions.

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.