The boiler has got two separate feeding systems. Gerald O'Donoghue designed the system so that with the flick of a switch, the hotel can go over from pellet to wood chip or vice versa, thereby giving themselves the best of both worlds. This flexibility is one of the design features Igneus incorporated for Michael. Ongoing management of the trees around the hotel generates a lot of waste wood, much of which is now drying onsite. This, together with a test crop of willow recently planted, will in the future be chipped and used in the boiler.

26M2 of evacuated tube solar panels by Kloben in Italy, also supplied by Igneus, have been installed on the roof of the leisure centre. These will supplement the work of the biomass boiler. There's a dual coil tank being installed there that will look after the hot water needs in the leisure centre, and there's also a heat exchanger installed at the swimming pool. This will attempt to keep the pool up to temperature, and if it can't do that, then the wood pellet boiler kicks in.