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CLA Wales director calls for Renewable Heat Obligation

01 February 2008

The director of Country Land & Businesses Association (CLA) Wales has called on the UK government to take advantage of the generation of renewable heat.

Director Julian Salmon claims that the government is currently overly focused on electricity and should invest resources into renewable heat technologies, icWales.co.uk reports.

He has called for the implementation of a Renewable Heat Obligation that is similar in its structure to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation in order to encourage the adoption of renewable heat by businesses and community schemes.

Mr Salmon said: "We are currently chucking waste into landfill sites which could be readily converted into energy.

"We have effective power generation from anaerobic digestion and we have biomass technology which can provide combined heat and power."

He added that Britain should not ignore the contribution that renewable heat can make to reducing carbon emissions.

The Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation calls on all transport fuel suppliers to guarantee that five per cent of their aggregate sales are made up of biofuels by 2010.

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