RHI ignites modern biomass heating. Huge advances have been made in the industry thanks to the REA’s support of the RHI


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 was the REA who, in partnership with Friends of the Earth, formed and led     support more technologies and opened up to household installations.





 surprise that biomass heating accounts for   biomass, which in August this year broke  commercial, industrial and public sector  


Wood fuel boilers lead the way in


UK renewable heating, accounting for over 90% of capacity installed under the RHI


Wood Heat Association: Securing a sustainable future for biomass. The new trade body will articulate the value of modern wood heating and work to secure its future


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 in wood heating. Feedback from industry is that the sector now needs


its own dedicated trade body to focus on the challenges and opportunities such growth brings. This is why the REA is pleased to  as we support the Solar Trade Association,  


  and work to secure a sustainable future for the industry through this decade and beyond. There are two main priorities for   to continued funding for renewable heat.   guaranteed until 2020. The Committee on Climate Change recently urged the   scheme beyond 2020 in order to meet   wood heating. Secondly, the companies making and


  need to ensure the customer  


www.r-e-a.net


both the domestic and commercial/industrial   practice standards and an accreditation scheme with teeth.   does more damage than 10 glowing reports does good, so we must build on the work of RECC and MCS in the domestic sector,    demand for wood heat of all fuel types and at all scales and applications.


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Members of the REA’s Biomass Heat Group can join the Wood Heat Association mailing list at no extra charge, and vice versa.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION For more information or to join the Wood Heat Association, please visit: www.woodheatassociation.org.uk


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As well as more technologies, there was  cost control mechanism was shrinking the     budget for small and medium biomass, an   a doubling of the tariff for large biomass to boot. All in a day’s work! 


currently working with DECC to ensure  wood fuel are implemented sensibly, because if they’re not, then suppliers could be left out  be left without fuel mid-heating season. We  


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION For more information or to join the REA’s Biomass Heat Group, please visit: www.r-e-a.net/member/biomass-heat


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