Directdebit
Member
What price are people paying for bulk pellets these days? Just took delivery of 5 ton and and price has jumped to £343,that’s up £83 at ton from my last fill, Pity the RHI rate didn’t follow suit!
Wood pellet price
- Thread starter Directdebit
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renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
Time to crank up the pellet press again.
- Location
- Derbyshire
Not bulk as such like yourself, but earlier this year did my annual order, usually buy 6x1ton bulk bags. Gone up from £260 to £400. Have some left from the last one so only took 4 this time and will see how it goes in the future
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Its bound to jump up in price, but I think it is lagging behind.
Difficult to compare prices when some are on bags, some small deliveries, some larger.
I can just about get 20 tonne in my bin, if we do some shovelling to empty it beforehand, and it is massively cheaper than smaller quantities.
Difficult to compare prices when some are on bags, some small deliveries, some larger.
I can just about get 20 tonne in my bin, if we do some shovelling to empty it beforehand, and it is massively cheaper than smaller quantities.
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
Makes up for my plant being mothballed. Originally breakeven point was 250 per tonne and I was stuffed by imported pellets at 80 per tonne. Hopefully these prices will last a bit longer.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
Russia and Ukraine used to dump pellets on the UK market. As soon as fighting stops I am sure they will start dumping again. No my cost of heating remains the same as last year ie FOC.
Who is that from we have been paying nearly £380 all summer for 18 tonne loads
Rod Dumbreck
Member
How many kWh from a tonne?
ringi
Member
How much of the breakdown is due to electricity costs to run the plant?
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
Costs me zero as its a means of turning excess electric into a product. Just in pelleting I use 120 kw per tonne with a further 10kw per tonne for the hammer mill.
- Location
- SG9
My average for the past 8 years around the 3800Kw
Rod Dumbreck
Member
At £400/ tonne that is about 10p/KWh,
We seem to be getting about 3600 from chip, but that is estimating from 4 cube per tonne and I suspect ours is slightly denser.
But for the rest of us.. budgeting on about £40 per tonne is the electrical cost alone of pelleting and common sense dictates that total production costs are about 50% of retail price as a complete cost which means the average producer is spending up to £200 per tonne and is making a much fairer reward compared to arable per tonne for example.. cheers John
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
I look at 250 as a fair return anything above is super profit but most of the last 10 years my machine has been mothballed as pellets have been dumped on the UK market at between 80 to 120 a tonne. The big cost is the wear of the equipment.
Put your machine on wheels and charge wear into the price then? Im keen!!
£55 /t delivered locally to me
