LowC Communities Ltd
The Oak Barn,, Lodge Farm Aunby, , United Kingdom

Arbor Heat and Power’s core areas of expertise spans low-carbon design, renewable energy supply solutions and building physics. Our energy consultants and specialist renewable-energy engineers can guide you seamlessly through the planning, implementation and operation of renewable energy infrastructure to deliver proven and cost-effective, clean heat and power solutions for your organisation.

To read more about how Arbor Heat and Power’s range of biomass combined heat and power (biomass CHP) systems can deliver clean and renewable energy for your industry sector, and deliver a return on your investment, please click on the industry links below.

Arbor Heat and Power work with developers, property owners, private investors and government bodies (local authorities) across all sectors in four core business areas: ArborElectroGen®, ArborConsulting, ArborSpace® and TruEnergy services. We have developed a range of our own, exclusive renewable energy generation systems that have been proven in operation throughout the world. Whether provided as straight-forward capital purchase, or as part of a longer-term RESCo supply, we'd be delighted to discuss how we can help you reduce your carbon emissions and lower your operational costs.

ArborElectroGen® is our innovative and proven performance range of combined heat and power (CHP) systems that delivers cost-effective, low-carbon heat and power for a variety of applications. It has been developed by one of the world’s leading experts in the field over the past 20 years and demonstrated at countless commercially-run sites throughout Europe and further afield. Read more…

ArborConsultancy focuses on delivering low and zero carbon solutions for the built environment, delivering improved returns and enhanced shareholder value by reducing costs, complying with new energy regulations and responding to market demands for improved supply optimisation and environmental performance.

Our aim is to optimise returns on your investment in renewable energy technologies and we can help with financing contracts and funding installations via RESCo services. Read more…

ArborSpace® manages the physical construction of buildings as well as the integration of renewable energy equipment into existing buildings such as classrooms for educational establishments. Read more…

TruEnergy Arbor Heat and Power’s TruEnergy gasification system is a renewable energy solution that generates clean, low carbon heat and power from waste materials that you would otherwise be required to pay to be disposed of. Read more…

Arbor Heat and Power mission

Throughout all its operations, Arbor Heat and Power endeavours to be passionate, entrepreneurial, professional and innovative, by:

• Applying strategic expertise to inform decision-making processes during the earliest stages of a project
• Adding value to projects through sound advice on energy and carbon master planning, design and infrastructure
• Delivering detailed technical and economically viable heat and power solutions
• Connecting clean energy heat and power concepts to products in the marketplace
• Supporting the implementation and operation of projects through bespoke management and procurement services

ArborElectroGen® is a range of proven, advanced gasification, biomass-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) systems that deliver cost-effective, low-carbon heat and power for a variety of applications. Now available in the UK and Ireland the ArborElectroGen® range offers exceptional operational performance, with incredibly-low carbon emissions.

Biomass fuel

Fuelled by ‘woody’ biomass, it is ideal for customers that have an on-site biomass resource - such as woodland, or easy access to a local feedstock. The feedstock creation follows a few simple steps by taking newly cut, ‘small round wood’ or similar, chipping to the required specification and drying to the correct moisture content. In the case of the larger ArborElectroGen® systems, the warm extract air from the plant space used in the gas cooling process can be used to dry the wood chips from typical seasoned moisture contents of 30-35% down to the required level. There is no requirement for long-term storage or chip screening.

Simple heat and power concept

The ArborElectroGen® system converts wood into a gas that fuels a Combined Heat and Power system (CHP). Producing an almost equal amount of heat and electricity, the system offers one of, if not the most cost-effective ways to meet the ever-more stringent carbon reduction demands of schemes like the Code for Sustainable Homes and BREEAM. This desirable heat to power ratio makes the technology far better suited to the matching of power and thermal demands of a building, facility or community network without dumping heat.

Whilst the bulk of the delivery of the UK’s built environment continues to focus on producing renewable heat to meet the demands of planning requirements, Arbor Heat and Power’s ArborElectroGen® targets renewable electricity – a commodity that, if supplied from the National Grid, emits around three times more carbon than the natural gas required to produce it.

The heat generated by the ArborElectroGen® would be used to provide on-site space heating and hot water, offsetting the need for traditional fossil fuel sources (e.g. natural gas, oil, LPG). Similarly, the generated electricity would be used to offset the need to import grid electricity - and at times when the electricity is not required it would be fed back into the grid.

ArborElectroGen® range

The ArborElectroGen® has several sizes of unit available:

ArborElectroGen® 30 - produces 30kW of electricity and 75kW of heat. Suitable for timber drying opportunities, small rural businesses and larger (rural) residential properties.
ArborElectroGen® 40 - produces 40kW of electricity and 93kW of heat. Suitable for timber drying opportunities, small rural businesses, small health centres and facilities, leisure centres and larger residential properties and country estates.
ArborElectroGen® 200 * - produces 200kW of electricity and 185kW of heat. Suitable for large leisure centres, small district hospitals, larger hotels and largest rural properties and estates.
ArborElectroGen® 400 * - produces 400kW of electricity and 360kW of heat. Suitable for larger hospital projects and university campuses.
ArborElectroGen® 800 * - produces 800kW of electricity and 702kW of heat. Suitable for larger district heating schemes (also in multiple), largest hospitals and university schemes.