Estate ensures green power takes root

GREEN ENERGY technology is being embraced by one of Yorkshire’s historic country estates.

The 7,000-acre Barningham Park Estate aims to gain a name as a driving force in the UK’s fast-developing biomass fuel industry.

Barningham’s main house and its office buildings in a converted Georgian stable block, are now being heated by the wood chip burning process – cutting its oil bills by 50 per cent.

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The estate is using wood from its land to provide its fuel after investing £60,000 in a Herz Firematic 3-phase 150kW boiler.

Barningham, the home of the Milbank family for more than 300 years, has been working with Rural Energy, a Myriad CEG company, on its biomass operation.

Ed Milbank, who manages the family estate near Richmond, said: “Our wood fuel boiler, which we have had since 2009, means we can supply our heating needs from the 300 acres of estate woodland we have here.”

Barningham has now embarked on a major tree planting program, setting up a commercial operation to supply wood chip biomass boilers in the region.

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