Optimum Heating

Renewable Energy in the form of biomass is now a mainstream industry with solutions for your home or business.

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   Why choose biomass?

   Biomass is a low carbon option as the carbon dioxide emitted when wood fuel is burned is the same amount that was absorbed over the previous months and years as the plant was growing.

   As long as new plants continue to grow in place of those used for fuel, the process is sustainable. There are some carbon emissions caused by the cultivation, manufacture and transportation of the fuel, but as long as the fuel is sourced locally, these are much lower than the emissions from fossil fuels.

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   What type of heaters are available?

   There are a wide choice of sophisticated biomass combustion equipment that offer a range of features, efficiency and convenience equal to the best fossil fuel fired systems that are currently available on the market.

   Timers, auto-ignition, automatic fuel feed, de-ashing and sophisticated building management systems all contribute to meaning that using biomass as a primary heating fuel can be as straightforward as using fossil fuels.

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   How do wood fuelled heating systems work?

   There are two main ways of using wood to heat your site

   a) A standalone stove burning logs or pellets to heating a single room or with a back boiler to provide water heating as well.

   b) A boiler burning pellets, logs or chips connected to a central heating and hot water system.

   Log burning stoves and boilers have to be filled with wood by hand. Pellet and chip burners use automatic fuel feeders which refill them at regular intervals from fuel storage units called hoppers.

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   How much will it cost to heat my premises with wood fuel?

   Biomass Wood costs often depend on the distance from your home to a wood supplier and whether you can buy and store wood in large quantities. If you have your own supply of wood fuel such as logs or wood chips then this will significantly reduce your costs against a fossil fuel equivalent.

   Have a look at our costs page to compare biomass against fossil fuels such as gas and oil.