August 2008

Our wood pellet stoves are the perfect choice for people that often experience high home heating bills due to fluctuating energy costs. Our stoves are elegant and a design statement in their own right.

Kedco Wood pellet stoves are available in the form of
( a ) space heater stoves whose primary function is to heat the room it is installed in and acts as a secondary heat source to help maintain control over heating expenses.
( b ) back boiler stoves which are ideal for smaller dwellings acting as the primary heat source for the home.

Read more on the advantages of wood pellet stoves

Kedco are now recognised as industry leaders in the science of Gasification, but what is Gasification ?

Gasification is designed to create a combustible synthesis gas from carbonaceous solids. These carbonaceous solids can range from wood pellets , wood chips or paper, to refuse derived fuel. Kedco believe that gasification can help deliver a sustainable energy economy and is one of the most technically and economically convincing energy possibilities for a carbon neutral economy today.

Gasification Process

The process of gasification converts carbonaceous materials, Read the rest of this entry »

Kedco , through its relationship with Bekon Energy Technologies has proudly launched a new system of converting waste to energy called ‘Bekon Dry Fermentation Biogas Technology’. This unique proven biogas technology has been developed by Bekon in Munich. It generates energy from communal and agricultural organic waste through dry fermentation to produce biogas, a renewable resource consisting mainly of methane and carbon dioxide.

While earlier technologies mainly concentrated on wet fermentation , the Bekon process produces methane from organic matter with a high content of dry matter.

Kedco have a system of converting waste to energy, the Kedco Green Energy Harvester. Since the beginning of the 21st centurary a new market has opened up for the use of biogas technology in the production of electrical and thermal energy from organic matter. The technology of ‘dry fermentation‘ can generate enery from communal and agricultural organic matter/waste.

Up until recently, biogas technology concentrated primarily on the ‘wet fermentation’ of agricultural and communal organic waste, while the recently patented Bekon dry fermentation process can produce methane from organic matter with a high content of dry matter. This kind of energy production is environmentally sound and cost effective, while also creating and securing employment. Read the rest of this entry »

According to a government energy white paper, the residential sector is responsible for 11,640,000 tonnes of CO2 annually, with electricity consumption accounting for 41% (4,770,000 tonnes) of these emissions.

View the energy white paper here

Kedco now provides evacuated solar tube panels of 3 different widths thus enabling various options of panels to fit restricted locations such as between dormer windows. Kedco also supplies commercial sized panels that consist of toughened glass, so they are reasonably resistant to debris and carry ten years warranty!

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An oil supply “crunch” could hit the world in five years time and drive up oil prices to more than US$200 a barrel, a think tank warned today.

Chatham House said incessant demand combined with inadequate investment by oil companies in raising output – rather than dwindling supplies underground - risked driving up prices to more than two-thirds current levels.

This would cause “serious policy implications” for oil dependent nations like the United States and the UK, the institution’s report said, and probably do for energy policy what 9/11 terror attacks did for the US military posture.

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LONDON (Reuters) - At the age of 25, Dan Lewer is going into retirement — carbon emissions retirement that is.

Lewer is co-founder of a new online carbon offset company called Carbon Retirement , which launched on July 15.

Carbon Retirement offers consumers and companies a novel approach to offsetting their carbon footprint by letting them dip into the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme, the 27-nation bloc’s flagship weapon in fighting climate change.
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