Planting

Various grants and funding measures are in place to stimulate the market for bioenergy. The main ones are listed below, with links to further information:

Energy Crops Scheme The Energy Crops Scheme provides establishment grants for short rotation coppice and miscanthus, and also aids short rotation coppice growers to set up producer groups. Applicants need to demonstrate that they have ot will have an energy end-use for the crops.
www.defra.gov.uk

English Woodland Grant Scheme

The English Woodland Grant Scheme is the Forestry Comissions suite of grants designed to replace the Woodland Grant Scheme. Grants include:

• Woodland Planning
• Assessment
• Regeneration
• Management and Improvement
• Woodland Creation Grant (to re-open in April 2006).

For further information visit: www.forestry.gov.uk

 

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