Energy MP opens club’s biomass boiler
2nd December, 2011 by Colin Victor
A senior MP has opened Kemnay Golf Club’s new biomass boiler, which the Scottish government gave the club £36,000 to install.
A biomass boiler burns waste wood – which often fits in with a golf club’s woodland management plan – and the energy created is used to heat the clubhouse, instead of less energy efficient alternatives.
Sir Robert Smith, a Liberal Democrat member of the Climate Change and Environment Select Committee at Westminster, opened the facility.
Club spokesman, David Fyffe, said: “We believe that Kemnay is one of the first golf clubs across the country to invest in excess of £100,000 to place them in the top echelons of Scottish golf clubs in terms of their green credentials.”