Worcestershire Case Studies

Worcestershire County Hall, Worcester

• The county hall is heated with a 700kW fully automatic woodchip fuelled boiler.
• The system is the largest of it’s kind in the UK to be fuelled by forestry and woodland chips.
• The Compte Compact C70DHV boiler uses around 600 tonnes of woodfuel per year and delivers around 1 million kWh of renewable heat every year, which means that some 550 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions are avoided.
• System installation, operation, maintenance and fuel supplies are all provided by Ecoenergy, which sells heat to the Council through a ten-year energy service contract.

http://www.mwen.org.uk/PDFs/Case%20Studies/Worcester_CS.pdf

Defra's Worcester site canteen

90 kW Boiler installed at Defra's Worcester site canteen to provide heat and hot water

• Defra's Rural Development Service canteen at Worcester is heated with a 90 kW fully automatic 'Econergy' woodchip fuelled boiler
• Requires 50 tonnes of woodchip each year that is to be supplied by a local farmer co-operative, Warwickshire Renewable Fuels Ltd.
• Utilising energy crops for energy can also benefit the environment and Producer / Establishment grants are available through Defra's Energy Crops Scheme
• The boiler will use woodchip from short rotation willow coppice and is anticipated to save up to 5.4 tonnes of carbon every year

 

The Energy Crops Scheme under the England Rural Development Programme has closed to new applications.  A new Energy Crops Scheme under the Rural Development Programme for England opened to new applications from 1st October 2007:

 

http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/planning/grants-funding/energy-crops/default.htm

 

 

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