Heating the nation

摘要

It was one of those 'bright ideas': create a short video about the woodfuel industry. After I attended a woodfuel conference, I began to question why "if woodfuel was so good, why wasn't it being taken up more fully by the commercial and domestic sector"?The documentary was born and I wanted it to serve a couple of purposes: as information to prospective woodfuel clients and as an overarching view on the industry. I gained the impression that the industry, as a whole, is just not getting its messageacross. Why not? Many interviewees told me about how woodchip was comparable on price to mains gas, that pellets were around the price of heating oil, and that when the renewable heat incentive was taken into account, woodfuel was cheaper. Existing end-users were talking of payback periods from 6-10 years on a 100 000 installation, with phrases, such as, "it was a no-brainer". Why isn't the take-up greater?