Slough And Power

[openspaceman]

Maybe one of their suppliers couldn't supply cheap chip anymore, since harvesting firms were getting consistently ripped off by them

 

I'd bet it was because the scheme it was established under had run its time and the subsidy was finished. I'm told it will stay running but with a gate fee but that doesn't tie in with the press release.

[arbwork]

Isn't there a new one at Heathrow airport?

 

I think LC energy has the contract LC Energy - CIPS award with BAA | LC Energy. Leading supplier of woodchip, wood pellet and biomass systems

[gensetsteve]

We have noticed in the last year we are having to pay more for joinery offcuts because the biomass market has been driving up the price. If people cant screw good money out of us they can fall back to bio mass.

[john k]

I think LC energy has the contract LC Energy - CIPS award with BAA | LC Energy. Leading supplier of woodchip, wood pellet and biomass systems

 

I went on a visit to one of their hubs a year or so ago, and their operation is a bit different from the likes of Stobart.

 

LC buy timber and chip it to their spec and don't take in "waste" chip. I guess this may change, but the operation that I saw was based on higher grade chip to G35 and G50 spec.

[PhilBeech]

Theres a big difference between the sort of biomass the big power stations can take and the smaller installations. Chip for the smaller plants is produced through chipping dry round wood to order, a higher value product.

 

Theres is a huge hole to fill if even 10% of the proposed plants come online, there will not be enough chip in the UK. Security and frequency of supply is sourced from overseas supply. Not right, but there you go.

 

Where does our coal come from?

[breffni]

Theres a big difference between the sort of biomass the big power stations can take and the smaller installations. Chip for the smaller plants is produced through chipping dry round wood to order, a higher value product.

 

Theres is a huge hole to fill if even 10% of the proposed plants come online, there will not be enough chip in the UK. Security and frequency of supply is sourced from overseas supply. Not right, but there you go.

 

Where does our coal come from?

 

Britain produces around 16 million tonnes of coal per annum. Electricity generation uses around 55 million tonnes per annum so the majority is imported and I think Russia is the main supplier.

 

 

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[PhilBeech]

Sorry mate, I know. That was my point lol

[breffni]

Ah foolish me!

 

 

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[leedeerman]

Some of our chip going to go to Drax now, Im Going to have to charge for tipping of chip, the crux of the problem seems to be the UK cannot produce enough chip.

[nick channer]

I was picking animal feed up from avonmouth docks earlier in week... There was great big pile wood chip on dock either going abroad or coming in..