Climate Change and Renewable Heat; The Importance of Biomass

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Climate Change and Renewable HeatThe
Importance of Biomass
Wood Fuel for the Construction Industry
Use Green Heat www.usegreenheat.co.uk
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Climate Change The Facts

• Climate change is a long-term shift in the
  climate
• Our climate is changing at a rate faster than
  what we have experienced in all of human history
• By burning fossil fuels for electricity and other
  industries we are releasing billions of tons of
  carbon dioxide and changing the climate
• Carbon dioxide acts like a blanket, trapping the
  suns heat around the planet

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Climate ChangeWe can reduce our carbon dioxide
emissions and slow the rate of change

• AES Drax in Yorkshire is a coal-fired power plant
  emits 22.8 million tonnes ofCO2 annually more
  than the 100 least-industrialised nations
  combined
• It provides 7 of Britains electrical power
• Burning fossil fuels to turn steam turbines and
  create electricity accounts for a quarter of the
  worlds greenhouse gas emissions, and coal has
  the highest carbon content of all fuels

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Policy

• The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 sets a
  target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at
  least 80 by 2050
• The Act also sets an interim target of a
  reduction of at least 42 by 2020

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Heat

• Need to decarbonise heat as it accounts for 47
  of UKs carbon dioxide emissions and 60 of
  average domestic energy bills
• (Source Heat and Energy Saving Strategy, DECC
  (2009)

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Renewables

• The Renewables Action Plan identifies options to
  ensure at least 20 of Scotland's energy comes
  from renewables by 2020

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What is Renewable Heat?

• Biomass
• Heat Pumps (ground, air or water source)
• Waste biomass and anaerobic digestion (including
  biogas)
• Solar heating
• Geothermal heat

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Renewable Heat

• Security of energy supply
• Maximising economic opportunities up to half a
  million additional jobs might be created in the
  UK renewables sector and its supply chains.

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Renewable Heat

• Renewable heat is massively under utilised

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Why Woodfuel?

• Economically attractive how much will it cost
  to heat an average 3 bedroomed house?

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Renewable Heat Incentive

• Financial support will
• Increase access to renewable heat
• Expand supply chain and market
• Help bring down costs

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CNP Settlements
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Heat Mapping
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CNP Forestry
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Support and Advice

• www.usegreenheat.co.uk
• www.lowcarboncairngorms.org
• www.usewoodfuel.co.uk
• www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/
• www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk
• www.scottishwoodfuelnews.org.uk

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Thank You
Amanda.calvert_at_highlandbirchwoods.co.uk