£4m to make business, schools or hospitals greener through bio-energy
added january 15th 2010
Further government funding is now available for business and community organisations, such as schools and hospitals, to help towards the cost of buying and installing biomass-fuelled heating and combined heat and power projects in England.
An additional £4 million is available overall under Round 6 of the Bio-energy Capital Grants scheme, with grants up to £500,000 on offer to individual projects. These grants pay for up to 40% of the difference in cost between a biomass boiler and its fossil fuel alternative.
Launching Round 6, Energy and Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt said:
"As the world works towards a global deal on Copenhagen, back in Britain we are continuing to find greener ways to do business. We expect bio-energy to supply a third of our renewable energy by 2020 and these grants will help support that. By March 2011 we plan to have 200 additional boilers installed, generating 87MW of biomass heat and over 72,000 tonnes of annual carbon savings.”
The Bio-energy Capital Grants scheme provides grants to business and community organisations who wish to install biomass boilers or other Combined Heat and Power systems. The scheme has already assisted the installation of 458 biomass boilers in a wide range of buildings in both the private and public sectors.
Nottinghamshire County Council have already installed biomass boilers in over 50 schools in the county under the scheme. The 2MW biomass installation at Stansted Airport was also grant supported by this important scheme.
The boilers which TRECO supplies are all eligible for grant consideration creating energy from biomass such as wood chips and miscanthus.
Contact TRECO today to find out how biomass can help your organisation achieve a greener profile: info@treco.co.uk or call us on 0845 1 30 90 12
For more information on the Bio-Energy Capital Grants scheme visit www.biocapitalgrants.org.uk
