Associated Businesses
The websites listed below provide valuable additional information and resources about biomass and woodfuel energy.
HETAS
HETAS is a not-for-profit organisation offering competent person scheme for installers of biomass and solid fuel heating, registration for retailers and chimney sweeps and approval of appliances and fuels. Woodsure is wholly owned subsidiary of HETAS.
Grown in Britain
Grown in Britain brings together environmentalists and woodland owners, contractors, builders and retailers who want to buy, use and sell more British timber and wood-based products, together with woodland managers, public and private agencies who want to see many more of our woods managed to produce sustainable and legal sources of wood.
Biomass Suppliers List
The Biomass Suppliers List (BSL) is a list of woodfuel that has proven it meets the eligibility requirements for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. It allows RHI participants to easily demonstrate to Ofgem that the fuel they are using in their biomass boilers meets the RHI sustainability criteria required to claim their RHI payments.
DEFRA
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
BEIS
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. This department brings together responsibilities for business, industrial strategy, science, innovation, energy, and climate change. BEIS is a ministerial department, supported by 46 agencies and public bodies.
Ofgem RHI guide
Ofgem’s guide to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) provides essential information about the scheme, encompassing FAQs, guides and videos, tariffs and payments. A comprehensive information resource that covers matters such as selecting suitable equipment and installers, eligibility criteria, together with making an application for RHI.
ENplus
The ENplus® quality assurance scheme has become internationally recognised as the fuel quality standard for wood pellets. Woodsure is an auditing body for ENplus and its auditing team covers the length and breadth of the UK.