As part of the drive to promote sustainable energy, the Forestry Commission is leading a ground-breaking project to estimate the size of the wood fuel resource available from British forests.
The study will examine the potential wood fuel resource from Forestry Commission forests in each of its districts, and apply harvesting and environmental constraints to give an actual wood fuel availability. These constraints will then be applied to private-sector forests.
It will also assess the resource available from short rotation coppice, primary processors of timber and arboricultural operations.
All results will be linked to Forest Enterprise‘s forest database system and presented in geographic information system format to provide improved information flows to potential end users of wood fuel.
