The park is part of a larger estate with 800 acres of managed woodland and the aim is to source a large proportion of the fuel supply from this woodland.
Mark Simpson, managing director of the park, chose to switch to a wood fuel biomass boiler for financial and environmental reasons. The park installed a Hydrodynamic screw to generate its own renewable electricity in 2007, making the business self sufficient for nine months of the year.
Switching to wood fuel biomass will not only save the business a further GBP20,000 a year in fuel costs, but Fair Energy is also MCS registered and the project will be eligible for the Renewable Heat Incentive (due to be launched by the Department of Energy and Climate Change in April 2011 and subject to consultation) which could pay back an estimated GBP40,000 every year for the next fifteen years.
Mr Simpson said, “We were able to receive funding for 50% of the capital and installation cost from grants and an interest free Carbon Trust loan. Switching to renewable heating makes good business sense now; soon we will have very low fuel costs and significantly lower carbon emissions, over 200 tonnes of CO2 saved each year.
“We chose to work with Fair Energy because they offer a complete service from design to installation and helped with every stage of the process.”
Fair Energy is a Community Interest company based in Topsham, Exeter, specializing in full service design and installation of wood fuel heating and solar thermal hot water systems.
