Wood pellet price

[Badshot]

Out of curiosity how recently did to get the load at £244/t?

I think wood chip is about a 1/3 less in terms of output tonne per tonne with pellets, but chip is currently £100 - £120/t so depending on your conversion costs could well be worth it.

If the woodchip was dry enough, what's the cost of turning it into pellets?
There's loads of Chinese pelleters on tik tok that would produce fast enough for own use and some spare to sell maybe.
Work well coupled with free solar/wind power.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Works out as being cra,p

I’m sure. I’ve just shredded 348t of logs and about to get the bill. Just trying to work out costs this next year, hence the question.

If the woodchip was dry enough, what's the cost of turning it into pellets?
There's loads of Chinese pelleters on tik tok that would produce fast enough for own use and some spare to sell maybe.
Work well coupled with free solar/wind power.

I think @renewablejohn has a plant. From memory it needs to be <8% which is v dry for chip?

 

[Badshot]

I’m sure. I’ve just shredded 348t of logs and about to get the bill. Just trying to work out costs this next year, hence the question.



I think @renewablejohn has a plant. From memory it needs to be <8% which is v dry for chip?

Would it not dry a fair bit in the pelleting process?

Gets quite warm.

 

[renewablejohn]

If the woodchip was dry enough, what's the cost of turning it into pellets?
There's loads of Chinese pelleters on tik tok that would produce fast enough for own use and some spare to sell maybe.
Work well coupled with free solar/wind power.

If you want to have a play I do have one of the useless chinese pelleters you could borrow.

 

[renewablejohn]

Would it not dry a fair bit in the pelleting process?

Gets quite warm.

Err no it just gums up the die and you spend the next 6 hours drilling out the die so you can have another play. In reality if your woodchip is not below 9% MC and ground into a powder like flour then you dont stand a chance of producing wood pellets.

 

[Tmlois]

What does all this work out as a £/kWh of usable heat after boiler efficiency etc please?

Boilers around 80-85% efficicnet. 4800kw per tonne of pellets. So at £540 it's about 13 pence kwh

 

[tullah]

I’m sure. I’ve just shredded 348t of logs and about to get the bill. Just trying to work out costs this next year, hence the question.



I think @renewablejohn has a plant. From memory it needs to be <8% which is v dry for chip?

What's the cost per kWh using straw bales. Say putting putting a home produced 185 kg wheat bale at a cost of £10. Not sure if £10 is up to date taking into account PK needed to replace straw taken off field.

 

[Woolless]

I think our wood pellet boiler will be getting switched off in spring, back on in October. Did the sums with current prices and it wasn't great. Need it for heat over the winter but the wood burner is back in use to reduce the amount of pellet burnt in the depths of winter.

 

[Sharpy]

What's the cost per kWh using straw bales. Say putting putting a home produced 185 kg wheat bale at a cost of £10. Not sure if £10 is up to date taking into account PK needed to replace straw taken off field.

Would the p and k not still be in the Ash?

 

[Doing it for the kids]

What's the cost per kWh using straw bales. Say putting putting a home produced 185 kg wheat bale at a cost of £10. Not sure if £10 is up to date taking into account PK needed to replace straw taken off field.

Don’t burn much straw now, what we do is linseed, osr, peas or beans. I think they cost us £4.50 each last time we bailed some

Each bale is about 250 kg and gives about 2.2 kWh / kg. This is out of the buffer tank so losses already. Call it £5 a bale, once in shed so about 1p /kWh before elec and labour?

The ash goes on the much pile and gets spread.

 

[Tmlois]

Any recent prices?

 

[chickens and wheat]

450 bulk delivered. En+

 

[Dman2]

Y pellets still quoting £560, and that was to make a load up going past us
WTF

 

[Tmlois]

Quoted 475 bulk yesterday

 

[Dman2]

Last load here from Pelletco, was £440

 

[Saidtheguru]

£430 14th Feb, its coming back in line, I doubt it will ever be £180 again

 

[Fogg]

Ypellets' rep gave me a call yesterday. He thinks prices will soften by April, but was still in the mid £500s at the moment. We've not paid more than £400 since the things started to go crazy, but were lucky to have an account open with one of the firms sourcing their pellet from UK forests.

What, out of interest, are people paying for lpg per litre bulk delivered? Just wondered where that's at p/kwh

 

[NFI]

Hi all.
I'm currently using a Vigas 60 log boiler and thinking of "upgrading" to a chip or pellet system. Still on rhi so worth doing, I think. I asked someone last spring and was given a ballpark figure of 30k for chip which frightened me somewhat. Producing around 80-100k kWh pa. The prices I'm seeing here for pellets makes me wonder if there's any point.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Woolless]

Hi all.
I'm currently using a Vigas 60 log boiler and thinking of "upgrading" to a chip or pellet system. Still on rhi so worth doing, I think. I asked someone last spring and was given a ballpark figure of 30k for chip which frightened me somewhat. Producing around 80-100k kWh pa. The prices I'm seeing here for pellets makes me wonder if there's any point.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

I would hold off and see what pellet prices do. They're ridiculous at the moment compared to the RHI payment.

 

[Fogg]

- that's why I asked for the lpg price.

I'm looking at 10p/kwh, but am getting 6p back, and that 6p will rise by CPI, so will likely be looking at net cost of 3.5p/kwh going forward. Propane has to be cheaper than 25p/litre to give better value (ok, I'm imagining my boiler was free and doesn't have service and repair and running costs - but from where I am now, that's roughly where I'm at.)