The challenge
A continuously occupied care home with 60 residents couldn't tolerate a lengthy heating outage. The existing oil boiler was beyond economic repair, and the care group wanted to cut carbon ahead of compliance tightening.
◆ Commercial · Devon
Nursing Home — 100 kW Windhager Pellet Retrofit
A 60-bed nursing home retrofitting a 100 kW Windhager pellet boiler into its existing plant room, minimal disruption to residents during install.
Sector
Commercial
Boiler Brand
Windhager
Output
100 kW
Fuel
Wood Pellet
Year
2023
Location
Devon
Our solution
100 kW Windhager BioWIN XL pellet boiler retrofitted into the existing plant room, with a prefabricated bulk pellet silo delivered and craned into position on a single weekend. Oil system kept live until pellet commissioning complete.
The installation
Install delivered over 10 days with the oil system running in parallel. Handover to the home's maintenance manager included full training. RHI registered on commissioning, first compliance service built into year-one plan.
The outcome
£7,400
Annual Fuel Saving
£5,800
RHI Annual Income
90% vs oil
Carbon Reduction
100%
System Uptime
On site
Plant room
Biomass pellets
Industrial pipework
Domestic fuel hopper
★★★★★
“We had residents in the building throughout and not a single complaint. The boiler has run without interruption since the day it was commissioned.”
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