Cowski
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- Location
- South West
Are the prices above for kiln dried chip? Looking to sell a few artic loads in the south west but prices nothing like this
Wood pellet price
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renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
No the prices are for wood pellet. You would be lucky to get half that price for kiln dried woodchip.
Cowski
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- Location
- South West
I was looking at the £100-120/t for chip, if I could get that price minus delivery I’d be very happy although it’s not kiln dry
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
If its not kiln dried its half the price again. Nobody will pay top price for water. ie woodpellet 9% MC kiln dried woodchip 12% MC woodchip 25-50%???????
Cowski
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- Location
- South West
Yes I understand that, I think you mis-read my first post: I was asking if the prices mentioned of £100-120/t were for kiln dried chip or green chip
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I think the last quote we got for pellet was £490/T, 5 T blow in. It's still a bloody fortune! We'll be relying much more on the woodburner this winter, with some help from electric heaters as we have wind turbines here.
If I'm not mistaken, then the prices can be found here premium hardwood pellets
Dman2
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- Location
- Durham, UK
Not bulk prices
Henry Martin
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If anyone is interested, I just filled my hopper. 3 tonnes at £345 + VAT, blown bulk. That does me for a full year
Looks like prices are currently at their lowest and have flatlined, significantly lower than a year ago, forecasts are for a slight rise during the winter but nothing significant ie £20 - £30 p/t. You should see savings v last year of circa £200 p/t.
You were getting it cheap last winter. Topped out at around £550 last winterI was paying £380 last winter, bulk delivered, and am being quoted £340 now. I don't know whether I was getting it cheap in winter or am being stiffed now.
We were lucky in that we had an account with a UK sourced supplier before things went pear-shaped when the Siberian supply closed down causing prices to rocket. I'm now feeling obligated to remain loyal even though there may be cheaper alternatives out there. It is a cracking pellet though.
All indicators point to low prices this winter, normally pricing starts to rise around now, be sure to shop around and check prices as they are going to be £30 - £60 per tonne cheaper as we move into December. / January.
I have a few jobs in the pipeline to remove pellet boilers on commercial RHI and fit oil instead as even with the RHI money its cheaper on oil...
- Location
- Sedgefield
The deciding factor was that I thought oil boilers might be banned
And pellets were expensive
And the biomass kept breaking down, I’m good at fixing it, but thought…. Why should I climb inside a sooty hole when a new oil boiler will just work.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I'm really not surprised. I have a real feeling that I backed the wrong horse putting in a pellet boiler.
That, I imagine, depends very much on the tarriff and the user's heat demand profile.
In my circumstances the average pellet price I've paid over the last 6yrs (cumulative cost divided by tonnes bought) is £230 per tonne. The average amount of RHI earnt back is about £225 per tonne. Even now, at the slightly overpriced £350 I'm finding myself paying a net 2.1p per kwh. I've no idea what oil costs, but I'm guessing it's not nearly that cheap?
With hindsight the biomass plant isn't looking like a move quite as smart as I'd anticipated, I thought the boiler would be worth a fortune once the RHI scheme closed, but I'm certainly not regretting it. I'm not in a hurry to ditch it.
Doing it for the kids
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Oil is about 80-90p a litre so 8-9p / kWh.
Rhi and biomass can be good, we are getting around 8p a kWh net income from rhi. We then sell the heat for another 7-8p and don’t use maybe 3000 litre of oil to heat the farm house.
That said OFGEM are now deliberately trying to shut us all down by making the hoops harder to jump though, I think.