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The Lanarkshire Wood Energy Project (LWEP) aims to help North Lanarkshire Council create and build a new wood fuel depot at Strathclyde Country Park, Motherwell.

Creation of the depot will support the Council’s five existing wood fired heating systems and it is hoped, addition buildings in the future.

Through the LWEP, the Council will be provided with the technical resources and biomass expertise required for the build. The depot will take wood from NLC’s woodland estate and turn it into conditioned wood fuel for use in several Council facilities.

Preliminary estimates indicate that wood fuel produced from NLC’s woodlands will be half the price of buying mains gas for heating. The depot will be built later this year and the LWEP is presently preparing a detailed operational and business plan for the depot.

As part of learning offered through LWEP, in January of this year the LWEP team and officers from West Lothian Council visited a wood fuel depot operated by Bristol City Council. The successes and mistakes of that investment have provided lessons that will help ensure the Strathclyde Park development offers a model of best practice.

The financial and policy framework for investment like this is now very sound and the Government’s latest proposal to support the industry, the Renewable Heat Incentive, offers clear financial benefits for Councils, and users of other renewable technologies, who do invest. LWEP can provide assistance and support to all Councils, but is very interested in supporting sustainability especially across those Councils in the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area.

For further information about Wood Energy visit our Wood Energy project page.

LWEP has been operating as a partnership project to promote and develop wood energy since 1998.  The project works closely with North and South Lanarkshire Councils and has provided some support to Glasgow City Council.  The Partnership is: the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Green Network Partnership, Central Scotland Forest Trust, Forestry Commission Scotland, Forward Scotland and North and South Lanarkshire Councils.