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Remote Haida community installs 720-kW biomass boiler

By District Energy posted 08-22-2017 00:00

  

BC Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Canadian Biomass Magazine

Summary

From tiny seedlings mighty cedars grow. Or, in this case, from $30,000 grows a $1.3-million biomass boiler that can heat a community.

The $30,000 was capacity funding provided through the First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund to Old Massett Village Council. Part of the Haida Nation, the council needed funding in 2013 to complete a Community Energy Plan to see if the remote community on Graham Island could become energy self-sufficient, while also reducing their carbon footprint.

From that plan came the idea to install a biomass boiler that could heat all of Old Massett’s community buildings, including the band office, community hall, health centre and school. The Community Energy Plan provided the blueprint to build a 720-kw boiler that was commissioned in March 2017.

Photo source: massetbc.com/visitors/old-massett/

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