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Our newest green initiative at Upton Estate is our choice to install Biomass as a new heating system; utilising timber from the Estate woodland and turning it into a renewable energy source. We hope that our choice to do so will in turn provide our tenants with significantly reduced heating bills and a significantly reduced carbon foot print. The heating system will not only provide benefits for our tenants but will provide a system that generates a use for the abundant woodland resources available within the Estate and that will guarantee the sustainability of the Estate in the future. Our biomass boiler will be located in a basic fuel store building providing a renewable form of energy that will supply heating and hot water and avoid the need for any new oil fired installations ensuring that our buildings are efficient as possible.
The fuel will be sourced entirely from within Upton. A local contractor will provide the wood-chipper but all other labour and machinery will come from within the Estate. |
A programme of thinning works will be implemented on an annual basis to provide a sustainable timber supply which will be seasoned and then chipped to produce the woodchip.
A redundant silage pit will be used to store and season harvested timber over the coming years which will ensure that there is always an available and sustainable quantity of biomass to heat the site.
The use of woodchip (and income from heat revenue from tenants) will become a driver for implementing a sustainable management plan to enhance the Estate woodlands (of which much is on ancient woodland sites). Currently we have a woodland management plan in line with the Higher Level Countryside Stewardship Scheme. The implementation of this plan will continue to promote sustainable and ongoing forestry management within the Estate.
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