Biomass Boilers
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Overview
Biomass boilers burn a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels called biomass (wood chip, wood pellet or cereals).
This produces heat for your home through central heating system and hot water. Biomass boilers are available with various outputs to ensure maximum efficiency based on the size of the building. These can be combined with a range of wireless radio frequency heating and controls to help reach maximum performance and controllability throughout the home.
Benefits :
- Biomass boilers are suitable for both domestic and commercial use, providing cheaper, environmentally sound, carbon neutral heating supply.
- Savings in Co2 emissions are significant - up to 9.5 tonnes per year when a wood boiler replaces a solid (coal) fired system or electric storage heating
- A renewable energy source derived from woody plants such as trees; sawmill co-products; wood waste and other plant material (grasses and straw).
- Regarded as "carbon-neutral" because the burning of biomass releases about the same amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as it had absorbed while it was growing.
- A low carbon footprint compared to other fossil fuels.
- A lower delivered energy cost compared to other fossil fuel alternatives.
Am I eligible?
Although most modern wood chip and wood pellet boilers are designed to allow modulation of the output down to approximately 30% of maximum output, biomass is not really suited to this mode of operation and if continuous, low level output is required biomass may not be the optimum choice of renewable energy. This also means that when deciding on the which biomass product to install, care should be taken to ensure that the bio-mass boiler is not over specified.
Bio-mass is a low energy density fuel and consequently a large volume must be stored on site if an unacceptable number of deliveries are to be avoided
Funding and Grants
Biomass boilers have been included in the Renewable Heat Incentive.
Phase 1 (available from July 2011) - RENEWABLE HEAT INCENTIVE (RHI) Premium Payment.
This is called the "RHI Premium Payment" and will be worth around £15m and available to 25,000 householders in Great Britain who install from July 2011.
The exact amounts available to consumers have yet to be confirmed. However the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have announced that the following amounts may be available:
RHI is designed to provide financial support that encourages individuals, communities and businesses to switch from using fossil fuel for heating, to renewables such as wood fuel.
- Solar Thermal - £300/unit
- Air to Water Source Heat Pumps - £850/unit
- Biomass boilers - £950/unit
- Ground Source Heat Pumps - £1,250/unit.
These are one off payments; so not annual. DECC plan to publish details of the "RHI Premium Payment" and how this will apply in May this year though recipients of this payment will need to ensure that:
- They have a well-insulated home based on its energy performance certificate;
- They agree to give feedback on how the equipment performs.
Further guidance will appear shortly once announced.
Phase 2 (available from October 2012) - RENEWABLE HEAT INCENTIVE
People in receipt of the Renewable Heat Premium Payments will be able to receive long term RHI tariff support once these tariffs are introduced, as will anybody who has installed an eligible technology since 15th July 2009.
These tariff payments will start alongside the Green Deal from October 2012 to allow a more whole-house approach to heat production and energy saving.
RHI is designed to provide financial support that encourages individuals, communities and businesses to switch from using fossil fuel for heating, to renewables such as wood fuel.
You can view or download the below brochures from Greenworks approved suppliers, before requesting an online quote.
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