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Woodfuel heating

Yorkshire and the Humber has 290 of the 1,960 biomass heat boilers identified in a survey of England boilers conducted by the Renewable Energy Association, commissioned by the Forestry Commission,  making the region top in the country for installations.  Around 100 of the boilers are located in West Yorkshire and can be found in schools, town halls, listed buildings, community centres, holiday cottages, universities.

Examples of woodfuel heating installations in West Yorkshire:

Bradford City Hall – 500kW
Ilkley Town Hall – 100kW
Paddock House Farm (Wetherby) – 40kW
Height Gate Farm –
Keighley Furniture Project – 230kW
Devonshire Hall (University of Leeds) – 250kW
Horbury High School (Wakefield)

For a copy of the West Yorkshire Woodfuel Case Studies leaflet  click here

If you are thinking of installing a woodfuel boiler and would like to see one in action in a similar situation please contact Andrew Kitching at Yorwoodson 01765 609355

Woodfuel production

Treeworld Limited

White Rose Forest has been working with Treeworld Limited in securing grant funding from the CO2Sense Woodfuel Programme to purchase an Oxtrac skidder with forwarding trailer and road legal timber trailer with bolster body.  This specialised low impact forestry equipment has meant that Treeworld are now able to manage their hard to access woodland and extract timber which will result in 8,000m3 of good quality virgin timber being sold into the woodfuel market over the next four years.  If the woodfuel produced from this timber is used instead of fossil fuel, it will save 17,000 tonnes of CO2 over the next ten years.

To read the case study on this project please click here: Treeworld Case Study

Photo: Adrian Waterhouse: Treeworld Ltd, Claire Hoyles: Wood Energy Co-ordinator White Rose Forest

Keighley Tree Services

Keighley Tree Services (KTS) is a family business trading for 26 years, they operate from an industrial site where they cover every aspect of tree work, consultancy, tree surgery, felling, woodland and estate management.    Keighley Tree Services have recognized there is a growing market for woodfuel so have diversified their business operations into producing woodchip.  They have already purchased a woodchipper through funding from Yorkshire Forward and have now through the support of the White Rose Forest have secured funding to finance a woodchip processing and storage facility through the CO2Sense Woodfuel Programme. KTS is the first woodchip producer in West Yorkshire.

The woodchip processing and storage facility is currently under construction.  Case Study to follow shortly.

 
 
Photo: Keighley Tree Services woodchipping demonstration at the Great Yorkshire Show 2010