Alva Northern - Biomass Energy.

Renewable energy and microgeneration technology has grants available towards the cost of installing Wood Fuel Heating (Biomass). To be eligible to receive a Low Carbon Buildings Programme Grant you must use a certified installer and a certified product. Alva Surveyors will be happy to advise you on grants and technical details.

Alva Northern can advise you about grants for biomass energy sources and related technologies.

Wood fuelled heating is organic matter, not fossil fuel. The CO2 released when energy is generated from burning wood fuel (Biofuel) is equal to that absorbed during the fuel's creation. (Hence the term 'Carbon Neutral') Biofuels fall into two main categories: * Wood Fuel. This includes sustainable forest products (hard and soft wood), untreated wood products, energy crops, short rotation coppice (SRC), e.g. willow, alder. * Non-Wood Fuel. This includes animal waste, industrial and biodegradable municipal products from food processing and high energy crops, e.g. rape, sugar cane, maize. Small-scale domestic applications of wood fuel usually takes the form of woodpellets, wood chips and wood logs.

There are two main ways of using wood fuel to heat a domestic property efficiently:
* Stand-alone stoves. These can be fuelled by logs or pellets. These will have an output of around 5-11 kW. Some models of stove can be coupled with a back boiler to provide water heating.
* Boilers connected to the central heating and hot water systems. These are suitable for pellets, logs or chips, and are generally produce around 15 kW.