Woodfuel systems

Tree planting at Mid Argyll Swimming Pool with the Wood Chip boiler and hopper behind
Tree planting at Mid Argyll Swimming Pool with the Wood Chip boiler and hopper behind
ALIenergy

Community Swimming Pools

The first woodchip boiler, 200kW, was installed at the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool as part of ALIenergy's Woodwarm project which also included a similar 200kW installation at Kyle Swimming Pool and a smaller 80kW system at Duror Community Hall. These systems are a far cry from the simple wood burning stoves of yesteryear, they represent modern, clean, efficient energy systems fed by automated woodchip hoppers. By displacing fossil fuel alternatives these systems aid the environment as well as deliver economic benefits to both the community and to the local economy.
Further woodfuel boilers are planned as part of the Campbeltown Community Facility (swimming pool) and the proposed Mull and Iona Community Pool at Craignure.

Community District Heating

Fyne Homes Whitegates housing development was the first example of a wood fuel district heating system in Argyll. Modeled on the successful Austrian district heating systems, viewed after a trip to Austria arranged by ALIenergy, the Whitegates system represented a major advance for wood fuel in the area.  The new houses where situated around a central boiler system which fed each individual house on a metered basis. This was a far more efficient and cost effective system than single boiler systems in each house and by displacing fossil fuel with a renewable energy source it was also environmentally friendly.
Fyne Homes and West Highlands Housing Association (WHHA) have begun to adopt renewable energy solutions in all of their new build developments. These include the Fyne Homes Shore Road development in Campbeltown and the WHHA Glenshellach development in Oban. The Glenshellach system represents the largest wood fuelled district heating scheme to be built in Scotland with 92 houses supplied by one boiler system when both construction phases are completed. 
1MW woodfuel boiler from an Austrian district heating system
1MW woodfuel boiler from an Austrian district heating system
Austrian Energy Agency