By Editor, on December 29th, 2010  KETCHIKAN–The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on December 21, announced a contract award to install a biomass boiler system in the Ketchikan, Alaska federal building.
A $4.5 million investment of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will allow GSA to replace the outdated, inefficient boiler which has been has served the building since it was constructed in 1951. The old boiler has reached the end of its useful life and GSA will install a new sustainable biomass boiler.
Read more in Ketchikan’s SitNews.
By Editor, on December 1st, 2010  Students from the Tok School holding up wood chips that are used to fire the boiler. by Jeffrey Hermanns, Forester
Alaska Division of Forestry
Alaska winter months are cold, but the children going to school in Tok are warmed by the very trees that have been removed to protect them, and wiser about the immense northern boreal forest surrounding the community.
On October 29, 2010, the woodchip-fired boiler at the Tok School was lit for the first time. Read more->
By Gary Lidholm, on December 22nd, 2009  Pete Lapham shows off his new wood pellet boiler As a former logger, current chain saw shop owner, and new member of the Energy and Sustainability Commission, Pete Lapham has always been interested in wood as a source of energy. But now he and wife Diana have taken wood heat energy to new levels. Read more->
By Gary Lidholm, on December 3rd, 2009 Part III in a Series about Biomass Heat for Haines
 Boiler Building for the Craig Schools At our farm in the Ozarks my father was always good-naturedly rebuking my mother for keeping the house too hot and always throwing another chunk of wood in the stove. He would quip to me, “Your mother burns wood like it grows on trees!”
I would snicker at that remark but the reality of it was we, on the farm, were fairly energy independent. Because our property was large enough to have timberland and my father was conscious of good forestry, our heating supply was sustainable right there on the farm. My mother could keep the house as warm as she wanted and we did not even pay attention to oil prices. Our trees were a renewable energy source. Read more->
By Gary Lidholm, on December 1st, 2009 Part II in a series about wood heat in Haines
 Smoke from burning brush piles and a cruise ship visible over Haines on a late August rainy day. Connelly Lake hydropower could eliminate the need for cruise ships to power up and biomass heat could eliminate the brush pile burning. The long term outlook for renewable energy in the Haines Borough is bright indeed! There are projects for the future that could make Haines the envy of the country when the goal is to reduce dependence on fossil fuel. But many of these projects are in the distant future and it is the immediate interim period where woody biomass can play an active role. Read more->
By Gary Lidholm, on November 24th, 2009 Part I in a series about wood heat in Haines
 Elimination of 38,000 gallons of fuel oil to heat Borough buildings! That idea should get our attention!
On December 8th, the Borough Assembly will review a conceptual design from CE2 Engineering for biomass (wood) heating of selected Borough buildings. CE2 is working under an energy grant awarded by the Haines Borough earlier in the year. Although the report is forthcoming, preliminary discussions with CE2 indicate a displacement of almost 40,000 gallons of diesel fuel is possible by going with a wood chip or other woody biomass heating system. Read more->
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