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Nottingham Tree Station Feasibility Study
With the ever-growing global demand for energy, rising electricity and fossil fuel costs will increasingly undermine local economic development in future years unless new local renewable energy sources are developed and exploited. In its drive to reduce carbon dioxide emissions within Nottingham, the City Council has also recently adopted the ‘Merton Rule’, requiring all new developments over 1,000m2 to reduce their production of CO2 by 10% through the use of renewable energy. One potential answer to both of these issues is to increase the amount of local energy produced from biomass. However, the main factor currently preventing the further development and exploitation of this renewable energy resource in Nottingham is a lack of information over supply. At present, most of the woody biomass produced in Nottingham from arboriculture is chipped and left to decompose, is not processed at all, or is sent to landfill or compost, resulting in a potentially large and untapped local energy resource. Enviroenergy, who run the city district heating network, are therefore currently investigating the possibility of converting a large existing mothballed coal fired boiler at the London Road Heat Station to biomass. The site has sufficient hopper storage, a pre-existing boiler ready for conversion, facility to dry woodchip and is conveniently sited next to the canal for chip delivery by barge. To help develop this initiative further, the Nottingham Tree Station Feasibility Study project will investigate the availability, type and viability of biomass resources in Nottingham. The study will also examine the viability of creating a designated city biomass processing site, similar to the Croydon Tree Station; carry out an initial assessment of the potential for creating a large biomass boiler at the London Road Heat Station; and produce an outline assessment of the possible biomass transport options from the processing to boiler site. In order to undertake the feasibility study, GNP will provide over £34,000 of revenue funding to the Nottingham Energy Partnership.
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