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BIOMASS
A UNIQUE ROLE IN
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been a very busy place and our evolution from
the owner and operator of a single, albeit
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whose activities span the whole biomass
supply chain continues. Over the last year
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key areas of our business: biomass sourcing,
generation and supply. Our own biomass
fuel sourcing and processing business in
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receiving, storing and distribution facilities
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success with its renewable power offering
for business customers.
Our ambition remains to convert three of the
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to burn sustainable biomass in place of
coal, with a fourth unit under evaluation.
We have already converted two units and
plan to convert the third in 2015/16. Our
transformation is the largest decarbonisation
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may claim to have similar capacities, their
intermittency and therefore load factor,
leaves them trailing when it actually comes
to electricity dispatched. Our two converted
units alone supply more than enough
renewable electricity to meet the needs of
two million homes.
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carbon economy is done cost effectively,
through the use of biomass, helps keep our
economy competitive and supports growth
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alone created or safeguarded more than a
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seen challenge from, mostly poorly informed,
sources. Regrettably, and somewhat akin
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(of all walks of life) are too distant from the
realities of rural activity and assume that by
burning biomass we are responsible for the
destruction of the rain forest!
Matthew Rivers
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