Island Life Magazine Ltd February/March 2013 | Page 130

EcoGUIDE
Facts, tips and advice by Mike Turner

Did you
know...?

Compare
costs for
heating
and hot
water

Biomass 1st supply
and install the
highest quality
biomass equipment
and can offer
expert guidance
with heat metering
and the application
process.

Domestic scheme
in August
The commercial scheme

households will be able

has been paying since

to apply, including those

November 2011; the

on the mains gas grid.

domestic scheme is to

Some energy saving

begin Autumn 2013. The

measures will also have to

domestic RHI will pay

be implemented before the

similar tariff rates but for

applications are passed.

seven years rather than

A home needing a 40kW boiler

20 years. All domestic

typically requires around
52,500kWh of energy per year
for space heating and domestic
hot water. Running on logs this
costs £667. Heating oil will be
£3,885, nearly six times as much.
However, we have made the
assumption that the home owner
takes responsibility for processing
and storing the timber ready for
burning, and we have not attached
any further costs for this.
Using a similar analysis for
pellet, a 25kW pellet boiler earns
£16,935 over the life of the
domestic RHI scheme. Pellet
costs around £200 per tonne. This
equates to four pence per kWh,
approximately 40 per cent.

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We supply
the highest
quality biomass
equipment, which
will last the
duration
of the scheme
and beyond, and
can offer expert
guidance with
heat metering
and application
process.

Emission cuts deadline
The case for turning
to Biomass for both
commercial and
domestic. The Climate
Change Act of 2008
established legally
binding reductions to
the UK’s greenhouse
gas emissions. The next significant milestone is to reduce
emissions to 25 per cent below the 1990 level by 2017. The
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is a Government funded
scheme to encourage the take up of renewable technologies.