Wood Energy Ltd - Biomass Company Wins Prestigious Renewable
Energy Award
Wood Energy Limited, the UK and
Ireland’s leading biomass heating business, has won the
coveted Ashden Award for Renewable Energy. Managing
Director and founder, Dr Robin Cotton, met HRH Prince
Charles and was presented with the award by leading
environmental campaigner, former US Vice President, Mr
Al Gore, at a high-profile awards ceremony held on the
21st June at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
The Ashden Awards are recognised as the world’s leading
green energy prize and reward and promote local
sustainable energy solutions in the UK and abroad. The
judges of the awards commented that they were highly
impressed by Wood Energy’s combination of a sound
business strategy with innovative application of a
highly promising technology.
Wood Energy has just completed several high profile
installations across the UK and Ireland including the
first biomass boilers in two new-build NHS hospitals
located in Wales and a 1,200kW boiler for a large-scale
commercial and residential district-heating scheme near
Dublin. The company is also currently installing a 500kW
boiler at the NaREC (New and Renewable Energy Centre)
High Voltage Testing Laboratory in Hebburn. Wood Energy
is also responsible for the largest biomass district
heating system in the South East, which has just been
installed at Park 25, a residential development, built
by Bellway Homes, in the centre of Redhill. Wood Energy
has installed an 840kW biomass boiler serving all of the
apartment blocks, accounting for approximately 250
homes.
On receiving the award, Dr Robin Cotton, said: “We are
absolutely delighted to have won this prestigious award.
It is fantastic that the biomass sector is receiving
some well-earned recognition in the renewable energy
field and to have Wood Energy acknowledged as a leader
in this area is very gratifying. We hope this award will
raise the profile of biomass and its benefits when
delivering energy efficient, low carbon solutions in
commercial applications.”
Wood Energy provides over a third of the UK and
Ireland’s total wood heat capacity, saving almost 12,000
tonnes of CO2 emissions a year through its boiler
installations.
As a winner of the Renewable Energy Award, Wood Energy
will receive up to £30,000
which it intends using to fund the installation of a
small wood chip boiler system in a high profile public
building. The installation will educate the public on
the benefits of biomass technology.
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