Norfolk poultry company cuts energy bills

A Norfolk poultry company has managed to cut its energy bills by switching from a gas boiler to a biomass one, a recent news report in the local media has been able to find.

Traditional Norfolk Poultry (TNP) used gas heaters to keep chicks warm before swapping to biomass boilers at the end of 2014.

The boilers at the brooding sites based near Attleborough burn wood pellets from sustainably sourced UK forests, enabling the company to make significant energy bill savings by emitting a much drier heat than gas.

“There are lots of industries using biomass boilers but as far as poultry is concerned it’s not been hugely implemented,” said one of the company’s founding partners, Mark Gorton. “With gas, it’s fairly clean and easy delivery, so it’s still popular.”

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