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Woodfuel boilers - Highland; North East (Moray, Aberdeen, Angus); Perthshire; Stirlingshire; Fife; Argyll; Glasgow (inc Dumbartonshire & Renfrewshire); Central Scotland (North Lanarkshire, Falkirk); Lothians & Edinburgh ; Borders; Ayrshire; Arran; Dumfries and Galloway; Northern Isles; Western Isles
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Caithness, Sutherland
North Coast Leisure Pool, Bettyhill
120 kW. Heats pool water, air and hot water
Rossshire, Invernessshire
ILM Alness
Averon Leisure Centre, Alness
150kW. Heating and hot water
Invergordon Pallets supplies woodchips
Highland Birchwoods Offices, Munlochy, Black Isle
Scottish School of Forestry, Balloch
110kW Fröling Turbomatic wood chip boiler provides
district heating for the buildings on the campus
Completed
September 2006 by Highland Wood Energy
Forestry Commission Office , Dingwall
Dingwall Primary School
Novar Estate, Evanton
Lovat Arms Hotel, Fort Augustus
Forestry Commission Offices, Smithton
Lochaber
Kinlochleven Community & Sports Centre
120kW. Heating and hot water
Corpach Transport supplies woodchips
Lochalsh Leisure Centre
100kW. Heats pool water, air and hot water
Anderson Wood Fuels supplies woodchips
Duror & Kentallen Community Centre
60kW. Heating, hot water
Corpach Transport supplies woodchips
Glencoe Visitors Centre (NTS)
120kW. Heating, hot water, campsite, rangers house
Corpach Transport supplies woodchips
Acharacle Post Office
30kW. One building
Richard Lavett Tree surgeon supplies woodchips
Torren Cottages, Glencoe
Crannich Farm, Mull
Tobermory, Mull
Dunlossit Estate, Islay
Lochaber College
Fort William Medical Centre
Glenfintaig Estate, Spean Bridge
Ardnamurchan Charters, Glenborrodale
Skye
Broadford Hotel, Skye
Edinbane Hotel, Skye
Greshornish Hotel, Skye
Sligachan Hotel, Skye
Strathspey
SNH Offices Aviemore
80kW. Offices (equivalent to big house)
Woodchip supplier - Russwood Sawmill
Dorbreck, Nethybridge
Abernethy House, Nethybridge
Albyn
Housing Association, Aviemore
Installed by Buccleuch BioEnergy
Mains Care Home Newtonmore
Russwood Sawmill, Newtonmore
Aviemore North
Alvie House, Kincraig
North East (Moray, Aberdeen, Angus)
Aboyne Academy, Aberdeenshire
Installed by Buccleuch BioEnergy
Andrew Nicol, Aboyne
Crown Est Glenlivet,Tomintoul
Critchiebank, Inverurie
Findhorn Trust
Forest Enterprise District Office Huntly
Forfar Primary School
Hutchensons, Portsoy
North East Enterprise Trust, Inverurie
Nursery School, Angus
Raddery Sawmill, Rosemarkie
Tarryblake, Huntly
Tannadice Primary School
300 kW Binder RRK/RRF boiler, installed by Angus Biofuels, August 2007
Wood Recyclability, Pitmedden
Gleneagles Hotel
Installed by Buccleuch BioEnergy
Jamie Reith, Methven, Perth
Atholl Estates, Blair Atholl
A&L Kings, Auchterarder
Green Welly Shop, Tyndrum
Out of Wood,
Gartmore House
Lochgilphead Swimming Pool
200kW. Heats pool water, air and hot water
Auchencorvie Sawmill supplies woodchips
Whitegates District Heating Scheme, Lochgilphead
460kW. 51 homes, heating and hot water
Woodchip supplier - Auchencorvie Sawmill
Lakeland Smolts, Cairndow
Opened May 08,
850kw
woodchip boiler, funded by SBSS
Woodchip supplier - Our Power
(local community woodfuel supplier)
Aqualibrium, Campbeltown Leisure Centre
Glenshellach Estate Community Heating Scheme, Oban (West Highlands Housing Assoc)
94 homes in district heating scheme.
System installed by VITAL Energi;
Architect – Campbell & Morris;
Quantity Surveyor – Malcolm Mitchie & Partners
Harbour View, Campbeltown
Seafield Farm Cottages
Emmaus Hostel
John Wheatley College
Coach House Trust
CCG
Central Scotland (North Lanarkshire, Falkirk)
Calderhead School, N Lanarks Council
Central Scotland Forest HQ, Shotts
Colzium House, N Lanarks Council
Drumpellier Pk, N Lanarks Council
Palacerigg Country Park, N Lanarks Council
Taylor High School, N Lanarks Council
Monteith Care Home, Carstairs
Winton House, Pencaitland, East Lothian
Large house and several cottages
Queen Margaret
University near Edinburgh
4 July 2008 - opened by the Queen
Installed by Caledon Buccleuch BioEnergy
Vogrie Park, Gorebridge
Edinburgh Council Russell Road Depot, Edinburgh
Lochend Care Home, Edinburgh
Dawyck Visitor Centre, Borders
Buccleuch Estate, Selkirk
Beshara School, Hawick - website with more information
2 x 80kW Vigas log boilers and 10 cubic metres of insulated holding tanks to heat the Big House, the Steading, the Steading Cottage and Lotties.
Woodschool, Jedburgh
Blairquhan Estate
Kinloch Hotel, Blackwaterfoot - 400kw woodchip boiler - more details: www.arranbanner.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/2193/Chips_with_everything.html
Auchrannie Hotel, Brodick - 300 kW woodchip boiler (self-contained boiler and woodfuel store) - supplied by Arran Woodfuels - more details: www.theauchranniebark.com/wordpress/ or www.arranwoodfuels.co.uk
Dumfries and Galloway
NHS Dumfries & Galloway (Crichton Royal Hospital and Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary sites and associated residences) - 1.5 MW Binder boiler - first biomass boiler in an NHS hospital in Scotland - carbon savings of around 2,375 tCO2 pa.
Lynn Road Development, Orkney
Orkney
Housing Association. 40 Houses. Fuelled by Short Rotation Willow Coppice grown locally.
None listed
North England
Kielder Village
300kW woodchip boiler. District heating scheme including Kielder Castle, Youth Hostel, School, 6 workshops and 6 houses
Local supply from forest, Forestry Commission
Sources of information:
Stark, C (2004) Woodfuel and Community Woodlands in Scotland: a feasibility study of woodfuel supply from Abriachan Community Woodland. MSc Dissertation. Edinburgh University.
Forestry Commission Scotland
Supplier Networks/Cooperatives
Scottish Woodfuels Group is a co-operative formed by a collection of woodfuel producers in South West Scotland.
Bioenergy Network in Argyll and Bute - watch this space or go to Alienergy website.
Angus Biofuels wood chipping facility - £1.2 million purpose-built plant (£376,373 from SBSS). Plant employs 20 people and supplies dry woodchips from clean roundwood.