A Draft copy of the Haines Borough Wood Heat Feasibility Study is now available for public review and comment. The report was published by CE2 Engineering from Anchorage as part of an energy grant awarded by the Borough to consider the feasibility and design of a centralized wood biomass heating facility for some of the Borough buildings, including the school.
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Uncategorized The Haines Energy and Sustainability Commission kicked off its second year on Wednesday, December 9th with an afternoon meeting in the Assembly chambers. The Commission’s term was recently extended another year by the Borough Assembly. Read more-> 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-> 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-> Part I in a series about wood heat in Haines
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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Elimination of 38,000 gallons of fuel oil to heat Borough buildings! That idea should get our attention!
