[Stoves] Wood pellet subsidy in the UK

[Andrew Heggie]

On 27 December 2016 at 18:14, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
<crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:
 Crispin we are driffting away somewhat from stoves topics..
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> I found the piece below from the BBC. Is this for wood pellets only? One effect will be the establishment of a supply chain that can be geared to domestic heating at a future time.

No I believe it is for pellets and wood chip but pellets will be
mostly imported.  It's not only the supply chain but also a network of
servicing engineers as when I was snagging woodfired boilers the
travelling costs alone were a big proportion of the bill as there were
so few of us and boilers over 100 miles away.
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> Subsidy fraud is nothing new of course.

Except it's not fraud, the government offered the payback and some
people have taken unfair advantage. Any government intervention into a
market skews it and there are always unforeseen effects.

Andrew