In Europe, 96% of all renewable heat comes from wood. In Ireland, the Government White Paper on Energy policy set a target of 12% of thermal energy to come from renewable sources by 2020 with an interim target of 5% by 2010. Coillte is strategically positioning the biomass resource to play an important part in contributing to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and climate change mitigation for Ireland. Forestry can act as a sink for the removal for CO2  from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and biomass can substitute fossil fuels such as oil and gas thereby reducing Irelands carbon production. For industries that rely on fossil fuels, switching to biomass would result in a reduction in the annual energy costs of the business while circumventing future carbon tax levies in place or being proposed.

Coillte has developed a strategy to become Irelands leading biomass solutions provider and we have recently formed a partnership with Sisk CES Energy. The combination of security of supply and technology expertise enables Coillte to offer large process heat and steam users an enhanced market value proposition via a turnkey solution appropriate to their requirements. Coillte offers security of fuel supply and its core expertise  is in forestry logistics, harvesting, extraction and delivery. Security of the biomass fuel supply is particularly important for the larger scale installations. Sisk CES Energy specialize in supplying turnkey biomass solutions including all design, project management, M&E and civil works.

Biomass can provide your business with an efficient, reliable and locally sourced green energy alternative at a significantly lower cost than fossil fuel and without the associated price volatility. Biomass is carbon neutral and will reduce your emissions allowing you to demonstrate best practice environmental management within your organization.