There’s a great deal of excitement about environmentally friendly energy right now, with heat pumps, solar and wind power all enjoying wide coverage in the media. Yet wood heat (using a processed wood fuel) is a method which can actually cut your heating bills by up to half, as well as offer the greatest carbon savings at the lowest capital cost per kilowatt of all the available forms of energy.
Woodfuel has been the renewable energy of choice for years in Europe and the US. With its huge forest resource and wide range of other sources of woodfuel, New Zealand is well placed to adopt woodfuel as a key part of the country’s energy mix.
This section of our website covers some of the technical aspects of heating with wood – the what and the how.
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District heating is a method of distributing heat energy from a centralised boiler plant to multiple customers. Common in Europe, it has multiple benefits for businesses and domestic customers.
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Bioenergy is the energy released from biomass, which is classified as any organic material which contains stored carbon.
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Woodfuel, when supplied from local resources, is regarded as a low carbon source of energy as the amount of CO2 released on combustion is equal to that which the tree absorbs while growing.
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Organisations with a need for steam, for example hospitals, chemical companies, laundries and food processors,
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Air emissions are a hot topic in many parts of New Zealand, particularly the major cities and those South Island towns which have problem airsheds.
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