Biomass Boilers
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Soldato
What did the boiler set you back? Just had one fitted at work, 100kw to heat our stores and offices but its pellet rather than wood burning.
Boiler, fitting and RHI application cost around £40k plus the VAT. I was tempted with a chip system but just did not have the space/setup to have one. I was also afraid of the price of chip/pellets going up (which they will). At least with timber its at the bottom of the process chain and i can harvest my own from our woodland ground.
meh, always late to the party when I see threads like this. A friend of mine has a small plumbing company and he is also a farmer I was only talking to him the other day and he was telling me they are fitting more and more of this type of heating. I think most people are jumping on board due to the RHI
Its exactly why people are jumping on board. A lad i know has put in 3x199kw boilers, that's a £1.5m payback over 20 years.
Farmer's with chicken sheds are the real winners though, as they where paying to heat the sheds with gas now they get paid to heat them with wood chip!
Farmer's with chicken sheds are the real winners though, as they where paying to heat the sheds with gas now they get paid to heat them with wood chip!
Soldato
You never see a farmer on a push bike 
Anyhow, is the boiler going to be enclosed in that shed or left open to the elements?
Anyhow, is the boiler going to be enclosed in that shed or left open to the elements?
Soldato
You can set your pellet price fixed for 20 years if need be!
We are in the process of making a pellet making company.
You never see a farmer on a push bike
Anyhow, is the boiler going to be enclosed in that shed or left open to the elements?
Certainly not those arable/dairy farmers that's for sure!
You can set your pellet price fixed for 20 years if need be!
We are in the process of making a pellet making company.
We never had an offer on pellets like that! Best we had was, paying for chip via kwh, which I thought was pretty good as any heat wasted to the ground etc was free as it wasn't passing the meter and therefore not being charged.
A friend was looking at a PTO driven pellet maker. I think your on to an excellent business venture especially in this climate.
Soldato
Certainly not those arable/dairy farmers that's for sure!
We never had an offer on pellets like that! Best we had was, paying for chip via kwh, which I thought was pretty good as any heat wasted to the ground etc was free as it wasn't passing the meter and therefore not being charged.
A friend was looking at a PTO driven pellet maker. I think your on to an excellent business venture especially in this climate.
Yeah, we have a biomass company as well, we have investors that have a pot of money to buy boilers and take the RHI, they are giving us the funds to make the plant so they also have a cheap source of pellets.
Quite exciting times, getting the testing done in our boiler today to get it certified, if that goes okay then we are good to go.
Soldato
what efficiency are you getting? We have ours hitting almost 95% in tests yesterday.
The boiler was rated at somewhere around 90%, cant remember the exact figure. Filled the chamber up with about 3 wheel barrow fulls of timber last night. It was still there this morning only in charcoal form. The pipes need to be insulated and a few bits and pieces need finishing off. I will then test how long a full load lasts me.