What is woodfuel?
People have always burned wood for fuel and our discovery of how to make fire, for the purpose of burning wood, is regarded as one of human kind’s most important advances.
Woodfuel can be burned to generate heat or electricity and is an important part of the UK’s renewable energy supply. It is a sustainable, low carbon, source of energy that is produced from managed woods, where felled trees are replanted. If the UK Government is to reach its stretching carbon reduction targets woodfuel heating will need to play a key role in both new build and retrofit schemes.
Woodfuel can be produced from thinnings taken from woodlands and forests, tree surgery or sawmill waste, specifically grown short rotation coppice crops and clean recycled wood recovered from waste.
Modern day woodfuel heating combines the ancient practice of burning wood with the very latest technology to create clean, automated way of warming our buildings.