Looking forward......looking back renewable energy [Heritage Renewable Energy]

摘要

New technologies are increasingly being installed alongside the old ones as the National Trust introduces renewable energy to key heritage sites to meet ambitious carbon-friendly targets. ON MY WAY into Scotney Castle, a magnificent National Trust property in Kent in south-east England, I was rather horrified to see that a large number of what looked like healthy mature trees at the side of the drive had recently been felled. However, when I met Ross Wingfield, the estate warden, he explained that they were sweet chestnut coppices that were normally cut down every few years but these had been left at the request of the castle's previous owner. They were now being brought back into use again, with a large part of the wood produced being used in the form of woodchip as a renewable energy source to fuel a recently installed biomass boiler.