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Welsh distributor goes with the wind

...coal, biomass and wind; a new turbine was recently erected beside the company’s Ammanford depot. The company’s first turbine was erected in December 2014 and now supplies power to 400...

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Data: the UKIFDA databank

...in limited circumstances, a biomass boiler. Grants available at launch were £5,000 for an ASHP or biomass boiler, and £6,000 for a GSHP. Recently, the Prime Minister announced an increase...

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Call for certainty on renewable liquid fuel

...OFTEC, have welcomed the publication of the Biomass Policy Statement (BPS) which reaffirms the role of renewable liquid fuels in decarbonising the off-grid sector but call for greater certainty in...

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DECC proposes excluding biofuels from domestic RHI

...tariff of 4.1p/kWh – the same rate as for approved, solid biomass fuels. Although the expected timeframe for its introduction remains unchanged (summer 2013), proposed levels of financial support for...

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Phasing out fossil fuel in home heating

...as solid biomass boilers, high temperature heat pumps, and potentially liquid biofuels) may offer an alternative in these cases but also indicates that aviation remains its preferred use of biofuels...

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Raw deal for rural renewables

...using oil for heating and hot water. If an existing oil-fired boiler was replaced with a biomass model then fuel bills would actually rise by £430 per year. Ground source...

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127% more expensive than heating oil

...(£967 per annum), 44% less expensive than LPG (£1524 per annum), 34% cheaper than biomass (£1283 per annum) and 50% less expensive than air source heat pumps using radiators (£1681)....