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Wilton Park is an Executive Agency of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, based at Wiston House in West Sussex. As a government entity, Wilton Park recognised that it could take action to help reduce carbon emissions and provide a positive lead in the uptake of carbon lean technology, in direct support of the government’s energy strategy.The Wiston Estate saw clear benefits in bringing under used woodlands into economic life, based on a stable demand for woodchip.
The Borough of Telford and Wrekin Council amalgamated Ercall Junior and Barn Farm Infant Schools on a new site within the Wellington area of Telford.The new primary school includes 16 class bases for 480 pupils and a nursery for 32 pupils. The school also includes facilities to be used by the community outside school hours.Environmental targets and rising school fuel bills have prompted many local authorities to install biomass boilers installations.
In the summer of 2006 Econergy worked with the Suffolk County Council and their MTC contractors to replace existing fossil fuel boilers with biomass boiler in four separate schools.There are two key drivers that place biomass on the agenda when considering heating provision. The first is the requirement that Local Authorities need to take a lead in helping to achieve Government targets for reducing carbon emissions. The second is cost, heating fuel for schools is a substantial and increasing element of running costs for Education Departments.
In 2005, The Energy Crop Company?s partner, Econergy, designed and installed an automatic wood pellet boiler system for Jesus College. This provides clean renewable energy from a 100kW boiler manufactured by KWB of Austria.
Tufton Lodge, Cumbria, KWB Easyfire 30kW >> Tufton Lodge is a remote property 375m up on an exposed hillside. The property is not on mains gas and has a lower than standard electricity supply (i.e. not able to provide the power that is normal for a domestic dwelling). As well as being a home it is a workplace from which the owners run the Walkingworld outdoors website. Due to the location the owners were left with two hoices for heating and hot water—oil or wood. For environmental reasons and instability of oil prices they decided to install a KWB wood boiler.
Belle Isle Castle, 100 kW Multifire >> Belle Isle Castle Estate incorporates self catered or catered accommodation outside Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh.
The Estate installed an Austrian KWB USV D 100kW boiler system in March 2006. The system comprises a 2000 litre accumulator tank, a 3-phase converter and ascending feed screw with its own drive unit. A fibreglass storage silo, holding 9 tonnes of fuel, was also erected outside, fibreglass being the preferred material for storing wood pellets.
John and Sadie Harkin’s home just outside Bridgend in Co. Donegal is a sizeable, comfortable, newly extended property ideally suited to family life. There are no outward signs, however, that the building has undergone an energy transformation that incorporates high-performance insulation, the latest underfloor heating system and a top specification woodchip
boiler.
Omagh College opened its new college facility in October 2005 and shortly after, commissioned a 150kW biomass boiler. The new facility, costing in the region of £20 million, boasts over 15,000 square metres of state-of-the-art academic accommodation.
The Old Moor Centre in Dearne Valley, Barnsley was built as a showcase for RSPB philosophies, using renewable technologies. The RSPB in other words is going green to set an example.
In the summer of 2004 the shop had to address how space and water heating could be provided. The shop were reluctant to choose a conventional oil fired boiler, and instead chose to install a modern woodchip heating system.
In February 2004 Econergy installed a 100 kW KWB automatic woodchip boiler to provide heat to a visitor centre, offices and accommodation for RSPB Dearne Valley in Barnsley.
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