BANK HOLIDAY 31st of August

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Our Customer Support office will be closed on Monday, the 31st of August (bank holiday) and will reopen as usual, on Tuesday 1st of September.

You can still order online 24/7 by visiting our Online Shop:

 

 

Alternatively, you can drop us a note by filling in the form on our contact page, emailing us or call our office or your local business manager before or after the bank holiday:

 

Balcas Energy Team

Bagged Wood Pellets versus Bulk Wood Pellets

Because we make our own biomass pellets locally, we have control over the product’s quality from tree to flame. Therefore, the product we use for both bagged wood pellets and bulk deliveries is the same high-quality, accredited, and certified product.

We are producing the bagged wood pellets using our own robot, named Robbie, who make our packaging activities, even more, energy efficient & keeps the wood pellets free of any risk of cross-contamination.

 

Bagged Wood Pellets

 

Ideal for use on wood pellet boilers and stoves. As they are supplied in easy-to-handle 10kg bags, they are easier to store wherever you like.

Our bagged wood pellets provide an ideal solution for your home, a biomass heating system, and are ideal as an emergency backup too.

Bagged wood pellets can be delivered directly to your home or business anywhere in the UK and Ireland.

 

Bulk Wood Pellets

 

Ideal for use on wood pellet boilers, with a store where we can blow the pellets in. Our delivery fleet has specifically designed vehicles, especially for deliveries like this. We can deliver any tonnage in Bulk, but the minimum amount to order online is 3 Tonnes.

Our bulk wood pellets provide an ideal solution for any biomass heating system, from residential ones to commercial and even industrial ones. For the latter, our Account Managers usually work out Heating Contracts, based on their location: Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom.

Bulk wood pellets can be delivered directly to your home or business address anywhere in the UK and Ireland.

More information on how to store bulk wood pellets HERE

 

Click below to check our Wood Pellets Prices 

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What are Wood Pellets?

Balcas Energy Wood pellets are a compressed form of wood biomass, made from high quality wood residue produced as a by-product of Balcas’ saw milling sustainable processes in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

It is a low-carbon, eco-friendly alternative to the traditional fossil fuels.

At Balcas we control the manufacturing process and deliveries, so from tree to flame. This guarantees a constant supply of consistently high quality wood pellets fuel all year round. A renewable energy, providing the ultimate, sustainable, high quality and price stable fuel.

Our bulk and bagged wood pellets have the ENPlus A1 certification and the BSL sustainability authorisation, which both guarantee a high quality and sustainable nature of the wood pellets that we provide.

If you’re looking for the Cheapest wood Pellets, the most calorific and sustainably produced in our local communities (Scotland and Northern Ireland), you’ve reached the right site! We are now the UK’s Largest manufacturer & distributor of wood pellets in Ireland and UK.

Bagged Wood Pellets from Balcas Energy

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If you have questions about our locally produced pellet fuel…

Please visit our FAQ section of our website. You can  also email us or call us anytime!

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Wood Pellets for Sale – Online OR Offline? Your choice!

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Balcas Energy is on the Government’s official wood pellets suppliers list

For more information on Ofgem’s wood pellets suppliers list, please visit the Government’s official wood pellets suppliers list HERE 

You will find us trading as Balcas Timber Ltd – our official corporate name for trading.

 

What Rain Day and Wood Pellets have in common?

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Today is known as Rain Day.

And while we have no scientific data to back up the following claim; we reckon we hail from the rainiest part of the world (outside of the rain forest of course). 

Balcas HQ is located in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, where we have the rain to thank for its scenery; beautiful greens and plenty of blue. In fact it is said that half the year – the lakes are in Fermanagh and the other half, well… Fermanagh is in the lake.
We’re actually quite fond of the wet stuff.
Rain after all one of the ingredients for growing trees from seed for harvest along with sun, soil and CO2.
You can’t have home grown quality timber that can weather any weather (or rainbows) without a little rain! And definitely no high quality wood pellets to keep you warm and cosy when the rain is on.


So if you’re not already aware of what ‘home’ looks like for a lot of us, have a look at the following short clip and think again before you curse the rain.

#Balcas marks Rain Day

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The Secret to Trouble Free Heating

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The ENplus Wood Pellets supplied by us are of the highest quality so we can guarantee trouble-free heating from the fuel perspective.

Like any other technology, Wood Pellet Burners need to be carefully monitored and regularly serviced.

But did you know that using a consistently high-quality wood pellet can bring you trouble-free heating and even help to lengthen the life of a wood pellet boiler.

 

Balcas Energy wood pellets bring you greater value for three reasons:

1 Balcas Energy wood pellets are low ash.
Our enplus wood pellets are only made from the purest sawdust. Before we process the sawdust into pellets, we wash, dry and debark the wood. This means that when they burn, our pellets have very low emissions.

You can see our manufacturing process HERE >>

 

2 Balcas Energy Wood pellets are low moisture.
Using 100% renewable energy, we make our enplus wood pellets to an extremely low moisture threshold.

You can view our sustainability process HERE >>

 

3 Balcas Energy Wood pellets have a high calorific value.
The high specification of Balcas Energy wood pellets means they are consistently above the standards set by ENplus guidelines. In short, you get a better quality and intensity of heat when you use Balcas Energy wood pellets.

You can check our ENplus & BSL accreditations HERE >>

 

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Wood Pellets Prices HERE>>

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BANK HOLIDAY 13th of July

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Our Customer Support office will be closed on Monday, the 13th of July (bank holiday) and will reopen as usual, on Tuesday 14th.

You can still order online 24/7 by visiting our Online Shop:

 

 

Balcas Energy Team

Five reasons why Tomorrow Depends on Trees

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Here are Five reasons why all our Tomorrows Depend on Trees and how Balcas Energy supports the fight against climate change:

 

1. Carbon Dioxide is warming the earth and accelerating climate change. Trees absorb CO2 and store it.

2. Balcas Energy is made from fast growing softwood – we plant four trees for every one we harvest, offsetting any CO2 released.

3. By making our business local, we are supporting a sustainable timber industry that is making increased forest cover a reality in the UK and Ireland. Ireland wants to increase its forest cover  by 64% by 2050. The UK wants to increase its forest cover by 19% by 2050.

4. Trees are the ultimate renewable resource – we can grow them right here without having to worry about global market price fluctuations.

5. Moving from fossil fuels to Balcas Energy’s locally produced wood pellets results in a 100% reduction in carbon emissions.

 

How we make our wood pellets?

We sustainably manufacture our wood pellets in our two plants located in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, and Invergordon, Scotland.

We make them with renewable energy and high quality material. So our operations are powered by green electricity. We generate this on site thanks to the co-products of all Balcas saw-milling activities.

The original timber is either spruce or pine, which are all locally sourced from sustainably managed forests.

Click here to see Balcas Energy Sustainability Manufacturing Process…

 

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Renewable energy edges out fossil fuels as Britain goes coal free for two months

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Last night marked a significant landmark in the renewable energy sector. Great Britain has gone two entire months without burning any coal to generate power.

A decade ago about 40% of the country’s electricity came from coal; coronavirus is part of the story, but far from all.

When Britain went into lockdown, electricity demand plummeted; the National Grid responded by taking power plants off the network.

The four remaining coal-fired plants were among the first to be shut down.

The last coal generator came off the system at midnight on 9 April. No coal has been burnt for electricity since.

The current coal-free period smashes the previous record of 18 days, 6 hours and 10 minutes which was set in June last year.

Displacing fossil fuels is nothing new to Balcas; we’ve been producing renewable energy now for over 15 years. Both by making wood pellets and creating renewable electricity for our local communities.

Balcas Energy’s Invergordon and Enniskillen sites have production capacities of 115,000 tonnes and 60,000 tonnes of wood pellets respectively.

Our operations are so efficient that we put surplus electricity back into the grid throughout the year:

  • Invergordon, Scotland has a production capacity of over 110,000 tonnes a year. This is the largest local pellet prodiction facility in the UK and Ireland and has a 9MW CHP (electric) capacity, of this 5MW is exported to the grid, while the other 3MW used on site.

 

  • Enniskillen, Northern Ireland is the site of a 3MWe Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant and pellet mill with a production capacity of over 60,000 tonnes per annum. It is located on the same site as the our timber mill due to the close proximity of raw materials.

 

Our biomass pellets are always available, as we are in control of manufacturing and distribution. Wood Pellets for sale online 24/7 via our Online Shop:

Read full story on BBC…

World Environment Day

To mark World Environment Day , 4 of Balcas‘ Enniskillen based staff volunteered to litter pick over lunchtime. Two bin bags were filled between them in just 30 minutes along the main stretch of our road.

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In a telling twist, they got caught out in an angry hale shower in between the sunshine’s rays.

Litter is an unfortunate and constant blight on our beautiful rural landscape, so they’ve vowed to keep it going every Friday during lockdown!

Thank you, team!

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World Environment Day with Balcas Energy

Reducing greenhouse gas emission and increasing the use of non-fossil fuel are the cornerstones of  our efforts to make UK and Ireland more sustainable and support a low carbon economy.

At Balcas Energy we are marking the World Environment Day by also:

  • encouraging a low carbon society with over 300,000 tonnes of CO2 savings per year
  • promoting a low carbon energy system, by currently displacing 100 million litres of oil annually
  • caring about our environment – our trees are part of a sustainable solution to the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. For every tree we use, we plant four more! 
  • promoting the efficient use of Renewable Energy – our wood pellets are manufactured using our own energy plant – no energy waste!

 

Read more about our sustainable pellet manufacturing process

Wood Pellet Burners

pellet burnersYou can have naturally warm rooms using Wood Pellet Fuel with the ultimate wood pellet burners technology.

The modern pellet stoves efficiently, conveniently and cheaply convert our Enplus A1 wood pellets to heat while giving off almost no wood smoke, helping to protect the environment.

All modern Wood Pellet Stoves are now stylish home furnishings with contemporary portrait styling, large glass windows and ceramic cladding in attractive colours. Pellet stoves also have remote controls for electronic ignition and temperature control making them safe, attractive and easy to use.

We found few good choices online where you can look for wood pellet burners that will satisfy both your design expectancy, heating needs and care for the plant and the environment – by using renewable fuel.

Once you will equip your home with a stove, we are here for you to deliver 10kg Bags of Wood Pellets – just order online & we’ll deliver to your home in a few days!

 

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“A wood pellet stove is a stove that burns compressed wood or biomass pellets to create a source of heat for residential and sometimes industrial spaces. By steadily feeding fuel from a storage container (hopper) into a burn pot area, it produces a constant flame that requires little to no physical adjustments. Today’s central heating systems operated with wood pellets as a renewable energy source can reach an efficiency factor of more than 90%.” Read More…