«November 2012: The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in a bid to encourage businesses to switch from oil or gas to
wood pellet boilers.»
Old boilers powered by heating oil can be upgraded to highly efficient
wood pellet boilers.
Would
a wood pellet boiler mean that you could be targetted?
Not exact matches
The recent regs against
wood boilers are a direct hit against poor rural residents who can not afford propane or
pellets to keep their homes warm in the winter — apparently there are no DEC bureaucrats in need of heating assistance.
The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass
wood pellet burning
boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.
Two Washington schools will use
wood pellets as a primary heat source to test energy efficient
boiler systems.
Conversion of coal plants to burn
wood, dedicated new - build
wood burning power plants as well as combined heat and power and biomass
boilers for heating are creating huge new demand for
wood pellets.
The
pellet feed stoves / furnaces /
boilers have some flexibility in that the
pellets can be
wood, paper, biomass (corn, corn cobs, wheat chaff, all manner of stuff even recycled trash).
12 months ago,
wood pellets were costing 50 % more (in energy terms of pence per kilowatt hour) than electricity did and that was before you'd spent thousands on a suitable (approved)
boiler.
The scheme additionally supports a number of other renewable technologies including micro-hydro,
wood pellet stoves, and
wood fuelled
boiler systems.
But Drax's giant
wood - burning
boilers are fueled almost entirely by 6.5 million tons of
wood pellets shipped annually across the Atlantic.
Now, after replacing coal in its
boilers with
wood pellets shipped from the U.S. South, the Drax Power Station in Britain claims to be the largest carbon - saving project in Europe.
Some of these renewable sources include solar thermal systems, geothermal heating, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps, biomass
boilers,
wood pellets,
wood stoves, and more.
(Dunster was also architect for BedZED) The Jubilee Wharf project in this old Cornish town has a big zero in carbon emissions, four 6 Kw turbines, and a
wood pellet biomass
boiler that burns «cleanly and efficiently what is effectively compacted rubbish.»