Case Study Details

A wood chip fired district heating scheme was installed at Kielder in 2004. The scheme uses locally grown Sitka Spruce, chipped to feed a 300kW Austrian Köb wood-chip boiler. The boiler supplies heat to Kielder Castle Visitors Centre, six new three-bedroom homes, The Rivermead Workshops, Kielder Community First School and Kielder Youth Hostel. The hot water from the boiler is supplied to each building via a network of buried insulated pipes. The system is owned and maintained by Kielder Community Enterprise Ltd. Which is a community owned energy supply company.
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