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As part of a four-year scheme to install energy-efficient heating in thirty of Highland Council’s schools, £6.9 million will be spent on 10 new biomass boilers. Here’s what a biomass boiler is:
‘Wood-fuelled heating systems, also called biomass systems, burn wood pellets, chips or logs to provide warmth in a single room or to power central heating and hot water boilers. A stove burns logs or pellets to heat a single room – and may be fitted with a back boiler to provide water heating as well. A boiler burns logs, pellets or chips, and is connected to a central heating and hot water system.’
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/renewable-energy/heat/biomass
http://www.energylivenews.com/2017/08/06/scottish-green-boiler-project-reaches-graduation/
There’s no mention where the funding comes from and I can’t see it in this huge list of Scottish Government granted projects [Yes I’m suspicious]:
Scottish Biomass Support Scheme – List of projects being offered grant
| Lead organisation | Project Title |
| 3G Energi Limited | 3G Energi Limited – Biomass Heating Scotland |
| Aberdeen Heat and Power Limited | Seaton CHP District Heating Scheme – Wood Chip Gasification System |
| Aithrie Estates | Hopetoun Estate Sustainable Heating Project |
| Aithrie Estates | Hopetoun Estate Sustainable Heating Project |
| Albamuir Limited | Eco Heat (Angus) |
| Almac Chipping Ltd | Almac Chipping Ltd – CHAP Wood Chip Supply Chain |
| Altyre Estate | Altyre Estate |
| Arbuthnott Wood Pellets Ltd | Arbuthnott Wood Pellets Ltd |
| Arniston Energy Limited | Arniston Energy Limited |
| Arniston Energy Ltd | Arniston Energy Ltd |
| Ayrshire Biomass Group | Ayrshire Biomass Group Installations |
| Ayrshire Biomass Group | Ayrshire Biomass Group |
| Bruichladdich Distillery | Port Charlotte Distillery |
| Caithness Heat and Power Limited | Caithness Heat and Power Limited – 2nd Gasifier |
| Cawdor Castle Ltd | Cawdor Castle and Gardens |
| Dick Bros Chipping Limited | EON – Wood Chip Supply Chain |
| Dundee City Council | Dundee City Council – Biomass Heating Portfolio |
| Dundee University Utility Supply Company (DUUSCo) | Biomass Boiler Installation at University of Dundee Main Boiler House Park Place |
| Earl of Stairs 1970 Trust Forestry | The Earl of Stairs 1970 Trust Forestry Wood Fuel Supply |
| Eilean Shona | Eilean Shona Log Boiler |
| Falkirk Council | Limerigg (Falkirk) |
| Fife Council | Kinghorn Primary School – Woodfired Boiler |
| Forestry Commission Scotland | FCS David Marshall Lodge Visitor Centre |
| Forth Health Limited | Forth Valley Acute Hospital, Larbert |
| Galgael Trust | Galgael Trust |
| Gelston Castle Holiday Cottages | Gelston Castle Holiday Cottages Biomass Boiler Installation |
| Glenfeochan Estate | Glenfeochan Estate Wood Chip Boiler Heating System |
| Haddo Estate | Haddo Estate District Heating Scheme |
| Harvwest Ltd | Specialist Biomass Production System (SBPS) |
| Heat and Power Limited | Grass as an Energy Crop |
| Heat and Power Limited | Growers Group for ‘Grass as an energy crop project’ |
| Here We Are | Here We Are: Our Power Chipping Plant |
| Highland Birchwoods | Northern Woodheat Woodfuel Training |
| Highland Grain Ltd | Installation of Grain Fuelled Biomass Boiler for Drying Malting Barley |
| Hutchensons of Portsoy | Ritchie Hall, Strichen |
| Islay Bio-fuels plc | Port Charlotte Distillery Wood Chip Supply Project |
| J B & J A Hudson, Farmers | Dalfling Biomass Heating Plant |
| J Nicholson & Sons | J Nicholson & Sons Biomass Boiler for Grain Drying |
| James Jones & Sons Ltd | Burnroot Sawmill Wood Burning Boiler |
| Jas P Wilson | Jas P Wilson Wood Fuel Supply |
| Lakeland Cairndow | Installation of Biomass Boiler at Lakeland Smolts Fisheries Ltd, Cairndow |
| Langside | Woodchip Fired Central Heating Boiler and Associated Systems at Langside Farm |
| Lochalsh and Skye Housing Association | Home Farm, Portree – Phase II-V: Biomass District Heating Scheme |
| Lochinch Heritage Estate | Lochinch Heritage Estate Wood Chip Heat Supply |
| M & M Hay | Edinglassie Community Heating Scheme |
| Macphie of Glenbervie Limited | Macphie Biomass Plant |
| Marcassie Farm Partnership | District Heating System for Marcassie Farmhouse and Steading |
| May-Tag Limited | Woodland Biomass Social Enterprise |
| Ministry of Defence, Estates Director Clyde | Replacement Boilers within General Purpose Store at HMNB Clyde |
| Mount Stuart Trust | Mount Stuart Woodfuel Heating System |
| NHS Dumfries & Galloway | NHS Dumfries and Galloway – Biomass Boiler Installation |
| Oran Recycling Limited | The Commercial Demonstration of a Multi-site, Biomass Heat Project |
| Pentland Plants Limited | Pentland Plants Biomass Production and Distribution |
| Perthshire Biofuels Ltd | Perthshire Biofuels Commercial Installations 2007 |
| Perthshire Housing Association Limited | Muirtown Energy Project |
| Portree Partnership Limited | The Old Inn and Gairloch Highland Lodge Renewable Energy Project |
| R Pollok & Son | Nether Benholm Straw Burning Grain Dryer |
| Reith Partners (Woodfuel) Limited | Blairmore |
| Rosebery Estates | Dalmeny Estate (SME) |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh | The Gateway Centre |
| Rural Development Initiatives Limited | IGNITE: Scotland 07 |
| Rural Generation Limited | Rural Generation Ltd – Lambhill Wood Heat Project |
| Rural Generation Limited | Rural Generation Ltd Fuel Processing Centre |
| Sabhal Mor Ostaig | Sabhal Mor Ostaig Biomass Heating Scheme |
| Scottish BioHeat Limited | Installation of a biomass boiler at Castlebridge Business Park |
| South Ayrshire Council | South Ayrshire Schools Biomass Project |
| Tait Harper Energy Partnership | Tait Harper Energy: Wood Pellet Company |
| Talbotts Heating Limited | Biomass Energy Project |
| The University of Edinburgh | University of Edinburgh: Biomass Group Heating at Easter Bush Veterinary Centre |
| Touch Business Centre | Touch Business Centre Biomass Project |
| Treelogic | Treelogic – Biomass Suppliers |
| W Watson Farm | Angus Biofuels |
| West Contract Services | WCS Wood Fuels |
| Woodtherm Fuels Ltd | Purchase by Woodtherm Fuels of a specialised woodchip delivery vehicle with integral blower system |
Talking-up Scotland 
Any Scottish Government grant not mentioned, I wonder?
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Thanks
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Well there’s this one: Sabhal Mor Ostaig (UHI)
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Yeh but no sign of the 10 schools?
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Well, ‘how difficult can it be to find who funded it?!’ The answer is ‘very’! Too much waffle out there – obviously I can’t really criticise on that score, but I do support the plain English doctrine – and I probably don’t understand a lot of the terminology. First I looked up the council themselves, from the article above they seem to be the main driver:
Biomass boilers, from 2013
http://www.highland.gov.uk/news/article/6757/highland_council_set_to_save_1m_a_year_through_biomass_heating
So they’ve been at it a while, and really pushing to get carbon emissions right down. Then I found this, it seems to say the biomass boilers are funded from the capital budget – which I’m assuming is the normal council funding (?):
From p30:
Click to access carbon_management_plan_2013_to_2020.pdf
And:
http://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/media/1558022/highland-council-ccr-2016.xlsx
The Scottish government seems to have provided a procurement framework, and given each council a carbon emissions goal. Maybe.
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Thanks unpaid but much appreciated research officer
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I DID think it was a bit excessively dedicated, and it fair exhausted me, so don’t be expecting anything so helpful again anytime soon 🙂
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