The right type and quality of wood fuel is fundamental to the successful, consistent and long term functioning of your biomass boiler. Fuel quality is the biggest cause of the issues our biomass customer support team are called out to fix. Many of which are avoidable. As is being cold, or having cold tenants, or [...]
Read More »Sourcing “Good” Wood Fuel For Use in Your Biomass Boiler
May 21st, 2013Biomass Boilers are Good For Woodlands!
May 16th, 2013Really? If we install too many biomass boilers, won’t we hit “peak wood”? The answer is no, but this is an often raised question and one which needs looking into in more detail. The responsible use of our wood fuel supply resource and the provision of wood fuel for use in biomass boilers are intrinsically [...]
Read More »Biomass Boilers: Should We burn Trees?
May 15th, 2013We really liked this blog from the Guardian on May 9th by Stewart Boyle, Senior Associate at South East Wood fuels, so we thought we would post in our blog it in its entirety. “I’m late on this discussion through a lot of IT problems today. I am shortly completing a book on Bioenergy on [...]
Read More »Heating from Biomass Boilers – An Appropriate Use of Wood Fuel
May 8th, 2013So wood fuel is dirty? The recent debate re-opened and ‘fuelled’ no doubt by the announcement that the Drax power station will convert three of its boilers to run on wood fuel, somewhat clouds the debate in a fog (or is it a soot) of confusion. So let’s look differently at the real issues. What [...]
Read More »12 Ways to Speed up Your Biomass Boiler’s Accreditation into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)
May 3rd, 2013We’re really pleased to see that calls to the OFGEM RHI helpline are up some 90% and RHI applications have increased from January to March, in comparison to October to December. The quantity of accreditations is up by 38%. Treco and our partners have now gained accreditation for 53 biomass boiler projects, by managing the [...]
Read More »Don’t Look Down – Containerised Biomass Boiler Delivery at Earsham Hall in Norfolk
May 1st, 2013The first of our “Fat Boy” shipping containers has been delivered to site – at Earsham Hall in Norfolk http://www.earshamhall.co.uk/ See the footage shot from the crane which lifted the container in place here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZeHA7Zu8w The “Fat Boy” container, which is a specially widened 40 foot High cube container, extends the standard 2.4m width with [...]
Read More »RHI Breaks the £9 Million Barrier, Biomass Boilers Maintain Lead!
April 30th, 2013The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which pays the owners of biomass boilers for generating and using renewable heat, has now broken the £9 million barrier in terms of payments made to date. A total of 1,358 projects have been accredited as of today and total payments of £9,057,397.19 across all technologies including biomass boilers have [...]
Read More »New Case Study Online! Biomass District Scheme Heats 16th Century Farmhouse, Food Processing Unit and Workshops on the Killerton National Trust Estate
April 30th, 2013Yarde Farm is a 350 acre beef and arable enterprise based on the Killerton National Trust Estate in Devon. With the farmland including over 200 acres of flood plain in permanent pasture, a Higher Level Stewardship has been introduced to help manage a wide range of challenges. The farmer was keen to use his wood [...]
Read More »Have You Seen Treco’s Biomass Boiler Adverts in the Poultry Press?
April 29th, 2013Biomass boilers reduce farm inputs
Read More »A Guide to Using Grain and Miscanthus in Biomass Boilers (The Hidden Cost of Poor Quality Fuel for Use in Biomass Boilers Part 2)
April 25th, 2013Miscanthus fuel for use in biomass boilers Further to yesterday’s blog http://www.treco.co.uk/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-poor-quality-fuel-for-use-in-biomass-boilers/ about the hidden cost of poor quality wood fuel, today’s blog looks at the use of grain and miscanthus as fuel in biomass boilers and offers some guidance on what constitutes good quality fuel for use in Guntamatic Powerchip http://www.treco.co.uk/list-products/Powerchip/ Biocom http://www.treco.co.uk/list-products/Biocom/ or [...]
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