Help biodiversity, local woodland management, local jobs and your local economy – using a carbon neutral fuel.

Carbon Neutral

Burning wood does not contribute to climate change if the felled wood is replaced, so it is regarded as carbon neutral.
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It is a renewable fuel because as felled trees are replaced with new plantings, there is a continuous cycle. The carbon released during wood chip burning is absorbed by growing trees.
Energy is used to process timber into wood chip and transport this to customers. This does produce carbon dioxide, which means that wood chip is not strictly carbon neutral. However, since this amount is small compared to the heat value of the fuel, it is still a ‘low carbon’ fuel. To keep this as low as possible, we need to keep the transport distances small.

Biodiversity

Many of our woodlands are suffering from lack of management. Timber values have made it uneconomic to do basic work. This has been reducing the quality of timber available, but it has also reduced the management for biodiversity. Wood chip fuel will give woodland managers a positive incentive to put more management into our local woods.

Local Jobs

The bulky nature of wood chip means that we have to keep transport distances to a minimum, to keep cost down. This means that all the work related to woodland management and wood chip production, gives work to the local population. So using wood chip, improves the local economy.