Wood pellet price

[snarling bee]

Just taken delivery of 17t of wood pellets priced at £597 tonne. Last time I bought it was £244 and prior to that it has been around £205 for a number of years.
We can burn wood chip with a change of settings on the boiler. I'm guessing it will be significantly cheaper and worth the extra hassle, we may have to concrete and make a storage bay within a lean to to be able to take an artic load.
Has anybody got a recent price for burnable woodchip and how much cheaper is it per kWhr?

 

[renewablejohn]

Just taken delivery of 17t of wood pellets priced at £597 tonne. Last time I bought it was £244 and prior to that it has been around £205 for a number of years.
We can burn wood chip with a change of settings on the boiler. I'm guessing it will be significantly cheaper and worth the extra hassle, we may have to concrete and make a storage bay within a lean to to be able to take an artic load.
Has anybody got a recent price for burnable woodchip and how much cheaper is it per kWhr?

Just remember wood pellets would be around 9% MC whereas woodchip could be anything upto 40% MC so price per tonne is meaningless unless you take into acount the water you are paying for and the additional cost of drying the woodchip. That said if you can get woodchip at less than 20% MC your boiler should be able to handle it with a change of setting but the efficiency per tonne will still be less than the wood pellet.

 

[Zetor]

Are you receiving RHI?

 

[Dman2]

I was quoted £570 for pellets last week

 

[curlietailz]

I disconnected my biomass and have a new oil boiler. Biomass is still operational “ just in case” though.

 

[Dman2]

I disconnected my biomass and have a new oil boiler. Biomass is still operational “ just in case” though.

How efficient was/is your boiler
Ours has been really bad this summer, didn`t realise till last week when we did some sums. Suppose with it being hot outside boiler was just running to keep itself warm.
Going to do a proper check this next week.
Works out over the summer we were only getting @ 2000kw per ton of pellets

 

[DrDunc]

Aye pellets have got expensive

Oil has dropped since this comparison of pellets at £450 a tonne

I pity all the poor buggers using electricity to run their air/ground source pumps. Price hikes higher than wood must be hard to swallow

 

[curlietailz]

How efficient was/is your boiler
Ours has been really bad this summer, didn`t realise till last week when we did some sums. Suppose with it being hot outside boiler was just running to keep itself warm.
Going to do a proper check this next week.
Works out over the summer we were only getting @ 2000kw per ton of pellets

I reckon mine was very inefficient with an 800 litre buffer it was just keeping itself warm all summer
I have used around 9 tonnes of pellets a year to heat my house… it’s been in 7 years and that’s about what it’s been using
Biggish detached old farmhouse

so I reckon the oil boiler will be cheaper
But
It’ll be more reliable and the engineer lives in the next village
And I won’t need to keep climbing into the “tank” to clean the dust out every year.

 

[Dman2]

It`s only the RHI that`s keeping ours going, and that one of the houses it feeds doesn`t have oil backup ( Yet)
Have to take into account cost of installing a boiler into that property.
Who do you use for oil service, is it someone from Sedgefield?

 

[curlietailz]

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It`s only the RHI that`s keeping ours going, and that one of the houses it feeds doesn`t have oil backup ( Yet)
Have to take into account cost of installing a boiler into that property.
Who do you use for oil service, is it someone from Sedgefield?

used Tom Leonard ( Google him) he’s in Stockton but moving closer. It’s a Worcester and he’s a registered installer. Nice tidy neat job. But your right. It’s expensive when you add it all up…. I needed new pipes, tank, rad valves and some new rads. But it’s done And a 7 year (?) guarantee whereas the biomass is already 8 years old and kept stopping/breaking and I wasn’t comfortable with it

 

[Courier]

Aye pellets have got expensive

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Oil has dropped since this comparison of pellets at £450 a tonne

I pity all the poor buggers using electricity to run their air/ground source pumps. Price hikes higher than wood must be hard to swallow

Of course the ASHP uses power to move heat from the source at approaching 1:3 the rate it consumes and has significantly lower annual maintenance costs so the differential is nowhere near what the table suggests and some folk fixed electricity at under 25p for the next two years…And then there is the small but probably significant amount of electricity to actually fun the motors and control system on bulk pellet system (I presume you don’t hand shovel the pellets in, and the ash out.)

 

[Chickcatcher]

Seeing @DrDunc table above I am nearing 10 year anniversary with wood pellet and my efficiency is still around the 3850 kw/ton so at £570 its base cost of 14.8p/Kw without the running costs of electric. most of it will be on tier 1 price.

 

[Boughton Estate]

Just taken delivery of 17t of wood pellets priced at £597 tonne. Last time I bought it was £244 and prior to that it has been around £205 for a number of years.
We can burn wood chip with a change of settings on the boiler. I'm guessing it will be significantly cheaper and worth the extra hassle, we may have to concrete and make a storage bay within a lean to to be able to take an artic load.
Has anybody got a recent price for burnable woodchip and how much cheaper is it per kWhr?

We can supply G50 wood chip @ 20% moisture in approx 22t walking floor loads. We are not that far away in Northamptonshire, near Kettering and so haulage wouldn't be that bad. The current price per tonne is around a quarter of that for pellets and so if you can handle wood chip its good value. If you are interested drop me an email on <[email protected]> and I can give you a better idea of price.

 

[farmerm]

Just taken delivery of 17t of wood pellets priced at £597 tonne. Last time I bought it was £244 and prior to that it has been around £205 for a number of years.
We can burn wood chip with a change of settings on the boiler. I'm guessing it will be significantly cheaper and worth the extra hassle, we may have to concrete and make a storage bay within a lean to to be able to take an artic load.
Has anybody got a recent price for burnable woodchip and how much cheaper is it per kWhr?

Might try running mine on oats

 

[Dman2]

Might try running mine on oats

Thinking the same here
Tried a bit in the spring, but loads of tar and clinker, took forever to clean off.
I understand if you add a little lime it helps?

 

[farmerm]

Thinking the same here
Tried a bit in the spring, but loads of tar and clinker, took forever to clean off.
I understand if you add a little lime it helps?

Were they dry oats? straight or mixed with pellets? I would have thought tar and clinker to be due to high moisture and low temperature combustion. I wonder if the trick is to mix with wood pellets and up the air flow, at least until the boiler is up to temperature.

Lithuanian farmer burns grain for heat as cheaper than burning wood

A farmer in Lithuania is having to burn the oats he grows to feed his sheep and the wheat used to make bread in order to heat his home after the price of wood pellets shot up following the invasion of Ukraine.

www.reuters.com

 

[Dman2]

Were they dry oats? straight or mixed with pellets? I would have thought tar and clinker to be due to high moisture and low temperature combustion. I wonder if the trick is to mix with wood pellets and up the air flow, at least until the boiler is up to temperature.

Lithuanian farmer burns grain for heat as cheaper than burning wood

A farmer in Lithuania is having to burn the oats he grows to feed his sheep and the wheat used to make bread in order to heat his home after the price of wood pellets shot up following the invasion of Ukraine.

www.reuters.com

Oats were probably @ 14%, so not really dry enough
Was mixing with pellets

 

[Mark C]

anyone tried straw pellets as a substitute ?

 

[rollestonpark]

anyone tried straw pellets as a substitute ?

If not claiming RHI, should be fine.
Froling told me they expect plenty of clinker from straw pellets.
I've often wondered about how difficult it would be to make straw pellets from rape or wheat at harvest, instead of buying in wood chip.
There was an amazone starw pelleting machine at 1 time, but think it needed a very large tractor on the front and was slow.

 

[Chickcatcher]

Have spoken to a pellet producer near Kimbolton and I understood them to say if you do it get the correct produced pellet I also understood him to say there's did not have the correct additive.