Brook Tavener, the Yorkshire men’s tailor, saved £19,000 a year in fuel costs when it installed a biomass boiler into its factory recently.
The company made the savings with biomass pellet boiler, as well as using government payments from the non-domestic renewable heat incentive scheme. Brook Tavener’s investment in the renewable energy system looks set to pay for itself within four years.
Brook Tavener director, Jason Scott, selected Yorkshire Heat Pumps to help them heat their 180,000 sq. ft. factory more efficiently. The company heated its open plan factory using electrical heating and an old oil-fired boiler, which included smaller workshops, its showroom, workroom, quality control areas and offices.
"With high factory ceilings in the open plan areas, the building was a challenge to keep warm and the heating bills were eye-watering. We wanted to install a more energy and cost-efficient system to keep the office and factory floor staff comfortable in the workplace," said Jason.
Yorkshire Heat Pumps specified a 199kW ETA HACK biomass boiler
and a 5,000-litre accumulator tank. In addition, they built a custom pellet store that can hold up to 14 tonnes of pellets and an auger pellet feed system.
Now, fourteen blow heaters, powered by the biomass boiler, heat the factory floor and showroom, while the offices get heat from regular radiators.
The next stage will be to use a heat recover system to take heat from the presses to provide hot water for the factory.
"Once the second phase is operational, no energy will go to waste. Already, thanks to the expertise of Yorkshire Heat Pumps, our carbon impact has reduced significantly with a CO² saving of over 162 tonnes per year," said Jason.
The government’s commercial RHI scheme makes payments over 20 years for each kW hour of renewable heat generated.