Waste Can Offer Contribution
Posted on: January 31st, 2008 by Emma YoungTHE UK Government strategy for meeting the challenges of climate change has been condemned as failing to realise what the countryside can deliver.
CLA Wales director Julian Salmon said the UK Government’s sights remained largely fixed on electricity at the expense of renewable heat generation.
He commented, “We are currently chucking waste into landfill sites which could be readily converted into energy, we have effective power generation from anaerobic digestion and we have biomass technology which can provide combined heat and power.
“These are win-win technologies and are surely the areas we should be investing in now.”
He said Britain must not continue to ignore the possibility that renewable heat can make a contribution to addressing 47% of UK carbon emissions while putting so much resource into renewable electricity. Electricity, however, only accounts for only 25% of emissions.
“We want a Renewable Heat Obligation, along the lines of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation that would at least encourage community schemes and businesses to adopt renewable heat,” commented Mr Salmon.
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