4. Biomass

14 January, 2009

38 m3 of wood chips can be stored in this old oil tank room at a Suffolk school to fuel a 450 kW Broag boiler.

With modern biomass boilers over 90% efficient, is the best answer for carbon reduction lurking in the woods? Best suited to rural areas near a ready supply of fuel, biomass boilers provide heat and hot water in many commercial and domestic installations. Trees store carbon as they mature, so burning biomass releases no more carbon into the atmosphere than it extracts. If trees are planted at the rate they are burned the approach is zero carbon (excluding transport of fuel from the equation).

ICOM celebrates Noah Gaunt as Apprentice of the Year 2026

Noah Gaunt of Vaillant Group UK has been named ICOM’s Apprentice of the Year 2026, recognising his outstanding commitment, technical excellence and passion for advancing the future of low carbon heating.

BCIA warns non-domestic buildings risk being overlooked despite decarbonisation drive

Commercial and public buildings risk being left behind in the UK’s transition to Net Zero despite more than £40 billion of funding, investment and policy support being directed towards building decarbonisation, according to the latest Policy Pulse report from the Building Controls Industry Association (BCIA).

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