Humber Rural Partnership Biomass Project Group
HUMBER RURAL PARTNERSHIP BIOMASS PROJECT GROUP
Following a Pathfinder trial project at Luddington Primary School, where a biomass boiler, fuelled by by locally grown, energy crops was installed to provide a renewable heating solution and a valuable education resource, The Humber Rural Partnership established a Biomass Project Group comprising of local, sub-regional and regional partners working in the biomass sector.
The aims of the project group are to share best practise, help raise the profile of the sector and to develop an increased local market for biomass and energy crops.
Working with our partners we are currently developing a funding guide, primarily to signpost and aid grant application opportunities for all biomass activities across our region, whether it relates to developing the supply chain or installing new boiler systems.
The Biomass Funding Guide is available to download now
"Help for making projects develop from inside the the forest and farm gate to inside the bolier door"
AFO - Activating Private Forest owners to increase forest fuel supply
Forestry Commission in Yorkshire and the Humber bid to the EU
Intelligent Energy Europe fund has been successful and a UK delegation
attend a second successful meeting in Austria. The UK is one of the
project partners in the Activating Forest owners bid. AFO's main
objective is to increase wood fuel supply from privately owned European
forests. In terms of bioenergy promotion, private forest owners (PFO's)
form a conclusive forest owner group, as they possess most of the
European wood energy potential. AFO carries out various activation
procedures to initiate wood fuel supply clusters among PFO's. These
clusters are brought together with the local potential energy wood
users, focusing on local small- and medium scale heat plants.
The project operates during 2009-12 in six countries and five specific
target areas. Finland and Austria are countries of high wood fuel
utilization level and strong experience of bioenergy harvesting and
procurement systems. They will transfer best practices to less
experienced partner countries with vast private forests ownership
(France, Slovenia, Latvia and UK).
Contact: Rudie Humphrey, Forestry Commission, 01904 448778, or
rudie.humphrey@forestry.gov.gsi.uk or visit http://www.afo.eu.com
