Biomass Boilers

Biomass (Wood) fuelled heating systems burn wood pellets, wood chips or logs to power central heating and hot water boilers. When all is said and done, most of us just want a boiler to keep us warm and provide enough hot water for a shower or bath. We’ve all pretty much resigned ourselves to having to pay for oil or gas to make this happen. However, with the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), the new government paid tariff, it is now possible to not only stop paying through the nose for your heating fuel, but also to make quite a substantial profit in the process.

MAKE A PROFIT FROM YOUR HEATING!

Sounds too good to be true? Well actually it’s not.

The renewable Heat Incentive for non-domestic properties (serving a business, including farms, workshops etc or more than one domestic property e.g. farmhouse and cottage) started in September this year, with the equivalent tariff for domestic properties (single dwellings) due to start payments in October 2012, as advised by DECC. The government has made a massive commitment to increasing the amount of renewable energy installations in the UK (to get to around 24,000 installations by 2020), and the RHI tariff is the driver for this huge increase in capacity, designed to be attractive enough to stimulate very rapid uptake of technologies such as biomass boilers and heat pumps.

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Heat and hot water from wood fuelled boilers

Wood fuelled heating systems supplied by us burn wood pellets, chips or logs to provide heating and hot water. As one of Cumbria’s leading MCS accredited Biomass Suppliers, with an in house specialist design team, and highly skilled installation engineers, EcoLogicLiving are at the forefront of this market, offering a number of leading European manufactured brands, including HDG and SolarFocus. Our design work is second to none, ensuring a system perfectly designed for your peoperty, and maximising benefits and financial returms.

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The Renewable Heat Incentive

Download the RHI Premium Payments document here, for information on the payments for Non-Commercial properties for biomass, heat pumps and solar thermal

The benefits of wood fuel heating

Very attractive potential returns from the Renewable Heat Incentive
Payback times as little as 4 years
Highly efficient, automated, European manufactured equipment, backed by long manufacturer warranties
When compared to LPG or oil, a biomass boiler offers a significant reduction on heating bills.
A carbon neutral option: although burning wood does release some CO2, it is the same amount as was absorbed while the wood was growing.
A good use for available wood. If wood is available from e.g. onsite woodland, this can be used to fuel the system, making significant cost savings, and preventing waste.
If a local chip/pellet/log supplier is used, this supports the wider local economy.

How do wood fuelled heating systems work?

Biomass Design

A boiler burning pellets, logs or chips is connected to a new or existing heating and hot water system.
Wood burning systems can also be integrated into existing systems (bivalent) to supplement heating, being used when wood is available, and being backed up by a conventional system otherwise.

Our pellet and chip burners use automatic fuel feeders which refill them at regular intervals from fuel storage units called hoppers or purpose built storage systems.

Biomass Boilers

Is a biomass system suitable for my home or business?

For automatically fed systems you will need space for a hopper or other fuel storage area, in an area accessible for re-filling. For log fired systems you will need a dry area close to the boiler to store your wood.
Are you in a smokeless zone? If so then wood can only be burnt in certain exempted appliances. http://www.uksmokecontrolareas.co.uk/locations.php
Do you need planning permission? You need to talk to your local planning department if your flue will extend 1m or more above the height of your roof, or your property is in a Conservation Area or World Heritage Site and you plan to install a flue on the main elevation visible from a road.