The deal follows more than 12 months of planning and Rural Energy’s cutting-edge renewable technology will now be installed in more than 21 of the turkey group’s farm sites across the east of England.

Rural Energy is supplying the biomass boilers and commissioning them for renewable energy company Lumicity, which put together a specialist consortium to bid for the work that included Armstrong, Baxi Commercial and PPS.

Rural Energy will supply a total of 179 Herz Firematic 150 or 199kW biomass boilers and have already commenced training Armstrong and Baxi to install them across all sites. Each site has an average of eight or nine poultry sheds, with the largest having 34.

Following the production of detailed designs generated by Rural Energy’s technical team, the Herz Firematic boilers will be supplied and installed into customised packaged plant rooms that are prefabricated off-site then delivered to site as required.

The orders highlight the growing demand for biomass solutions within the poultry industry. Bernard Matthews operates turkey-rearing farms across Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire and rears over seven million birds annually.

The company recognised that biomass solutions will help to cut energy bills as well as provide a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Paul Clark, managing director of Rural Energy, said: “We are delighted to be part of the team working on this major project with Bernard Matthews.

“It is a major deal for us and is the latest in a series of new roll out orders we have received this year, as demand for biomass technology continues to grow.

“The agricultural sector in particular is catching on to the many benefits biomass can bring, especially for energy-intensive farming such as poultry-rearing or commercial greenhouse growing operations.

Paul Clark added: “The sites are all applicable for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and the financial benefits that brings.

“The Herz boilers we are supplying are market-leading and are some of the first in the UK to be awarded the important RHI emissions certificates from Ofgem.

“The first few orders of boilers have now been received and will be commissioned by Rural Energy the last week in April. The whole project is planned for completion by the middle of October 2014.”

Rural Energy is one of the leading providers of biomass systems to a range of businesses, local authorities, health providers, education authorities, schools and organisations, such as the National Trust.

Headquartered in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the company has spent over a decade at the forefront of the biomass sector, and is part of the Myriad CEG Group, which is a leading UK provider of renewable energy solutions.

Rural Energy is one of the UK’s most experienced biomass distributors and installers, specialising in systems for every kind of business and site. It can offer unrivalled technological expertise and customer service.

With 12 years at the leading edge of biomass technology, the Rural Energy team has experience in installing more than 750 systems to date.

Its comprehensive range of services includes:

• site surveys and full feasibility studies
• project management and detailed design of biomass boiler installations
• supply and installation of fuel feed systems, storage, boilers and heating circuits
• servicing and maintenance