Forests and Climate Change: A Convenient Truth WOOD FOR FUEL

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Forests and Climate Change A Convenient
Truth?WOOD FOR FUEL
BAFTA, London 21st November 2007 Keith
Richards keith.richards_at_tvenergy.org
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A favoured source of energy and inspiration
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Wood for Fuel

• The closed carbon cycle
• Sources of wood fuel
• Supplying wood fuel
• Using wood fuel
• More than a few issues

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Foresters Talking .
And see this ring right here, Jimmy? Thats
another time when the old fellow miraculously
survived some big forest fire
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Wood for Fuel Carbon Neutrality

TV Bioenergy
Wood Fuel
Sources
Management
Harvesting
Chipping
Dry/Storage
Transportation
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Green Fuel Flexibility

• For heat
• For heat and power
• For heat, power and cooling
• For (second generation) transport fuels or
  BIOFUELS

TV Bioenergy
Wood Fuel
Sources
Management
Harvesting
Chipping
Dry/Storage
Transportation
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Establishing a new balance
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Other options?

• Nuclear the leading contender cleanup costs 70
  billion
• So called clean coal

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Other drivers Security of Supply
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Current Wood Fuel Resource

• Waste residues, arboricultural, civic amenity
• Saw mills, wood processing
• Thinnings etc. from managed and unmanaged
  woodland, lop and top etc.
• (Very) Limited energy crops

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Wood Strategy and Implementation Plan

• Mobilise 2 million tonnes of wood from unmanaged
  woodland across England
• SE England key area (most wooded) with 26 of
  woodlands unmanaged seek 580,000 tonnes from
  here as SUSTAINABLE yield
• Nationwide possibly establish 3,500 new wood fuel
  installations utilising 1 million tonnes
• That by 2013

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How much wood will be needed by the UK to meet
targets?
Nationally for electricity and heat
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40 suppliers Tree Surgeons 18,000 tonne chip a
year
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Colombian Blacktails
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Types of Wood Fuel

• Types of wood fuel include
• Logs
• Wood chip
• Wood pellets

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Wood Fuel
Sources
Management
Harvesting
Chipping
Dry/Storage
Transportation
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Wood For Heat - Logs
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Wood Fuel Supply Infrastructure
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Wood Fuel in the SE
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Wood Fuel For Heat Chips
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NIMBYism and BANANAism

• Emotional response to energy centre plans
  attempts to frighten people
• Based on incorrect information or even
  disinformation
• Transport movements, stack and emissions, smell,
  industrialisation all issues

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Renewables support in UK - 2005
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Education required to counter prejudice

• Wood still seen as stone age to many
• But an emotional attachment remains
• Hard work, dirty, difficult to manage
• NOT environmentally friendly
• Perversely not as clean and environmentally
  friendly as natural gas for example

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Power Stations Electricity AND HEAT
Existing 90MWe Thames Valley Power Station using
300,000t wood a year supplying 400 commercial and
industrial enterprises and 2,500 homes saving
261,000t CO2 pa
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Power Stations
New 30MWe Teeside Power Station claims 300,000t
wood a year supplying 30,000 homes and saving
200,000t CO2 pa
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UK Government 60 reduction in carbon emissions
by 2050
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Wood for Fuel
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Austrian Projects DHS
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To Conclude

• Wood for fuel has a very important part to play
  in any sustainable energy future for the UK
  development can be rapid
• District heating/ power schemes critical
• This can encourage better woodland management
  through new local markets
• Woody energy crops will be required or
  significant imports will be needed

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• A trees a tree. How many more do you need to
  look at