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  • Net Zero Willow – peat free compost and mulch

    Net Zero Willow – peat free compost and mulch

    May 9, 2024
  • Maximising biodiversity in your Biomass crop plantation

    Maximising biodiversity in your Biomass crop plantation

    January 10, 2024
  • A Way Forward for Biomass Crops – Industry Response to the UK Biomass Strategy

    A Way Forward for Biomass Crops – Industry Response to the UK Biomass Strategy

    August 12, 2023
  • Biomass Connect – everything you ever wanted to know about Biomass crops, and more!

    Biomass Connect – everything you ever wanted to know about Biomass crops, and more!

    February 22, 2023
  • Play Cropper – our all new Envirocrops STEM game

    Play Cropper – our all new Envirocrops STEM game

    December 15, 2022

Case Studies

  • Beuchte Energy Village

    Beuchte Energy Village

    A district heating system was established in the small village of Beuchte in 2008. The heat is produced in two 250 kW furnaces using woodchips which are produced from local SRP poplar by a local farmer. The first SRPs were established in 2009. Today more than 30 hectares of SRP are grown within a …
  • Umberleigh Barton Farm

    Umberleigh Barton Farm

    Umberleigh Barton Farm is a working mixed farm situated in North Devon. The owners of the farm business have installed a biomass boiler to supply space and water heating to the various buildings on site. As a result the farm is no longer dependent on the  fluctuating costs of heating oil. The Umberleigh Barton Farm …
  • Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) willow self supply at Gurteen College, Co. Tipperary

    Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) willow self supply at Gurteen College, Co. Tipperary

    This case study provides details of how to properly grow and use short rotation coppice (SRC) woodchip  in a medium scale district heating scheme. Gurteen Agricultural College grows 30 hectares of SRC and dries the woodchip produced before it is used to fuel 2 x 300 kilowatt biomass boilers. This …
  • Tredethick Farm Cottages

    Tredethick Farm Cottages

    Tredethick Farm Cottages located in Lostwithiel, Cornwall is using miscanthus grass as a fuel to provide district heating to 8 holiday lets, a farmhouse and a swimming pool. Crops for Energy was commissioned by the farm owner/proprietor Tim Reed to assist in the initial feasibility study and subsequent management of …
  • Folly Farm

    Folly Farm

    Folly Farm is a learning centre based near Chew Valley Lake which is owned and managed by the Avon Wildlife Trust. The farmhouse and outbuildings date from the late 17th to early 20th century and underwent a complete redevelopment between 2006 and 2008. The chosen biomass system was a 150 …

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