SPREADING waste materials over willow rather than grass or crops is far more environmentally friendly, a leading wood energy company has claimed.

ONE of Ireland’s leading wood energy companies has teamed up with a world-famous stud farm to provide a cleaner, greener solution to some of its heating needs, right on its own doorstep.

NATURAL Power Supply (NPS), a wood energy firm based at Ballymountain, near Waterford City, announced yesterday that it has completed the first large scale biomass harvest of willow.

A WATERFORD-BASED alternative energy company is hoping the Government will practice what it preaches by heating all new public buildings using sustainable biomass fuel from Irish forests and wood industry by-products.