This month further government funding becomes available for business and community organisations, such as schools and hospitals, to help towards the cost of buying and installing biomass-fuelled heating and combined heat and power projects in England.
£4 million is available overall under Round 6 of the Bio-energy Capital Grants scheme, with grants up to £500,000 on offer to individual projects. These would pay for up to 40% of the difference in cost between a biomass boiler and its fossil fuel alternative.
The Bio-energy Capital Grants scheme will make up funding available to organisations who wish to install biomass boilers or Combined Heat and Power systems, including anaerobic digesters. These create energy from biomass such as wood chips and miscanthus, or from waste.
The scheme has already assisted the installation of 458 biomass boilers in a wide range of buildings in both the private and public sectors.
Source: www.wired-gov.net
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