From the Anchorage Daily News, Wednesday, December 9, 2008:
The Alaska Energy Authority has agreed to spend $20,000 to analyze whether energy-efficient wood boilers would be cheaper to use than heating oil for the roughly 50,000-square-foot school being built near Talkeetna. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough, which requested the study, has also chipped in $5,000. …
Local residents cooked up the idea. For more than a year, they’ve pressed the borough to consider using a wood-heated boiler as the primary heating source for the school, and to leave the fuel-oil boiler as a secondary heater. The wood could be harvested on borough-owned land a few miles from the school, whereas fuel oil would be trucked to the school from Nikiski, said mechanical engineer Tami Hamler, a supporter of the wood-fired boiler project. And if sustainable harvest practices are used, wood from public land could heat the school indefinitely, Hamler said.
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We work as the Alaska Reps for Hurst Boilers (over 1,000 solid fuel boilers built) on Biomass Fired Hot Water, or Steam or Combined Heat and Power systems. Hurst is currently building a packaged Biomass/Wood-Fired boiler/steam turbine electrical generating system that is pre-packaged and pre-tested completely at the Hurst factory. We are currently working with folks from the Dept of Forestry for such projects in the Alaska Interior. I will be in Anchorage to meet with several people and groups in the beginning of February 2009 and would very much appreciate the opportunity to discuss our Biomass/Wood Fired Combined Heat and Power systems.
Greg W. Smith
President
Global Energy Solutions, Inc.
(630) 668-8900
GESCicago@SBCGlobal.net