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01/02/2010
More support for biomass-fuelled energy Further Government funding to help towards the cost of buying and installing biomass-fuelled heating and CHP projects in England became available in December for business and community organisations such as schools and hospitals. Some £4mn is available overall under Round 6 of the Bio-energy Capital Grants scheme, with grants up to £500,000 on offer to individual projects. These would pay for up to 40% of the difference in cost between a biomass boiler and its fossil fuel alternative. The scheme has already assisted the installation of 458 biomass boilers in a wide range of buildings in both the private and public sectors. Launching Round 6, Energy and Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt said: ‘We expect bio-energy to supply a third of our renewable energy by 2020 and these grants will help support that. By March 2011 we plan to have 200 additional boilers installed, generating 87 MW of biomass heat and over 72,000 tonnes of annual carbon savings.’
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Region: UK
Keywords:
Government
- Alternative energies - biomass
Subjects:
Energy engineering,
Project Management,
Skills, education and training,
Policy and Governance,
Research and development,
Boilers,
Combined heat and power generation,
Heat distribution,
Transportation, Transmission and Distribution,
Biofuels,
Heat,
Funding
