Further, about 50 percent of all large industrial boilers (>250,000 MMBtu/hr) use solid fuel, which include different combinations of biomass, coal and other waste products.

The boilers of the 30- to 45-year-old units are mainly of opposed wall-, cyclone-, and tangential-fired configuration with average capacity factors ranging from 61.8% to 73.3%, as shown in Figure 2.

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For its part, the government says its ultimate goal is to see households “gradually move away” from fossil fuel boilers “in an affordable, practical and fair way” over the next 14 years.