Climate Change and Renewable Heat; The Importance of Biomass Use Green Heat Wood Fuel for the Construction Industry.

Climate Change and Renewable Heat;

The Importance of BiomassUse Green Heat

www.usegreenheat.co.uk

Wood Fuel for the Construction

Industry

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 sun’s heat around the planet

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 Britain’s electrical power

• Burning fossil fuels to turn steam turbines and create electricity accounts for a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and coal has the highest carbon content of all fuels

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

HeatNeed to decarbonise heat

as it accounts for 47% of UK’s carbon dioxide emissions and 60% of average domestic energy bills

(Source: Heat and Energy Saving Strategy, DECC (2009)

Renewables

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

What is Renewable Heat?

• Biomass• Heat Pumps (ground, air

or water source)• Waste biomass and

anaerobic digestion (including biogas)

• Solar heating• Geothermal heat

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.

Renewable Heat

Renewable heat is massively under utilised

Why Woodfuel?Economically attractive – how much will it cost to heat an average 3 bedroomed house?

Renewable Heat Incentive

Financial support will:• Increase access to

renewable heat• Expand supply chain

and market• Help bring down costs

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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

Amanda.calvert@highlandbirchwoods.co.uk