Approximately 20,000 litres of heating oil are used to heat the property per annum with a carbon footprint of 51 tonnes of CO2 at a cost of around £8,000. Clean Energy Consultancy was requested to provide an energy review to evaluate the renewable energy and energy conservation options with the aim of reducing household energy consumption, carbon emissions and energy costs.

The study considered heat pumps and biomass heating as alternative energy sources as these were sympathetic to the property and its Grade 1 Listed Building status and concluded a biomass grain boiler would be the recommended option as the biomass boiler could utilise the existing heating system and the biomass fuel, (grain) could be farmed locally by the client enabling Breckles Hall to be heating self sufficient. 

The biomass grain boiler would use around 40 tonnes of grain annually at a cost of £3,000 with a carbon footprint of 5.1 tonnes. This represented an annual financial saving of £5,000 and annual carbon saving of 45.9 tonnes CO2 with payback less than 7 years.