Called ‘Pellet Zone Ltd’ (PZL), the new service is aimed primarily at medium to large scale users of biomass pellets, as well as producers of pellets able to supply sufficient quantities.

Operating from the UK, PZL is set up to buy and sell pellets internationally, and in so doing will help smooth the supply and price fluctuations that sometimes frustrate end users and also provide a ready market for pellet producers to assist them with their sales.

All forms of biomass pellets will be traded by PZL including wood pellets and those made from energy crops such as Miscanthus and Reed Canary Grass.

A Key asset of the new business is its multilingual web site at www.pellet-zone.com where pellet buyers and producers can register completely free, and also enter details of their pellet requirements or availability on-line.   (All company and personal information remain completely confidential).

PZL are highly experienced in International trade and shipping and are able to fulfil most requests from smaller local consignments by road, through to intercontinental dry bulk shipping.

Steve Garner, who heads up the new trading service, comments…

“Pellet-Zone is the culmination of our extensive market research in which reliability of supply and consistency in pricing we’re high up on user’s wish lists.   With our global footprint and sector expertise we can meet these requirements.

Steve continues…

“For pellet producers we fulfil a vital sales function – enabling PZL to place their pellets into a much wider market whilst reducing unsold stock and associated costs”.

The increasing requirement to prove pellet supplies are sourced only from sustainable materials and areas is a key factor in successful trade – and one that PZL take very seriously.

The economies of developing countries are energy intensive, and without energy security and affordable fuels, all efforts at social development are in vain. We are already seeing the truly catastrophic socio-economic effects of high oil prices on the poorest countries, some of which are now forced to spend up to six times more on importing oil than on health care and poverty alleviation. Asking such countries to make energy even more expensive by putting a carbon tax on fossil fuels or by capping emissions in order to fight climate change would be unacceptable to many of them. In fact, some energy experts have warned that in the medium term, high energy prices could indeed be more threatening to societies than climate change.

A Chinese top official, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui, made this crystal clear by saying Beijing will reject binding caps on greenhouse gas emissions at the UNFCCC’s global meeting in Bali next month, because developing countries must be allowed to use more energy and consequently raise emissions to fight poverty.

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From the top of the Greenergy refinery in Immingham you can see across the Humber estuary to Hull. A hum of equipment fills the air, along with a curious smell. Popcorn.

Greenergy processes vegetable oil. It takes the gloopy juice squeezed from inside rape seeds harvested on surrounding Lincolnshire fields, strips out the waste and chemically tweaks the leftovers to make it easier to burn. Greenergy pipes almost 100,000 tonnes a year of its veggie option to ConocoPhillips and Texaco, just across the road, which mix it with their diesel fuel.

Until recently, the operation was viewed as a good thing. Because the oilseed rape plants absorb carbon dioxide, the company says the carbon emissions of the mixed fuel are lower, which helps the fight against global warming. And because oil companies that supply the blend pay less tax, everybody wins. Greenergy is expanding and similar facilities are going up elsewhere.[...]

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