Maine Senators Introduce Biomass Heating Legislation

U.S. Senator Angus Sovereign (I-ME) introduced legislation this week that would pass by renewable energy tax credits to simplified wood heating systems in residential and commercial applications. Co-sponsored by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), theBiomass Thermal Function Act of 2013, or BTU Act, would underscore the management and hope for biomass thermal energy, which is at once underutilized in the Co-conspirator States. As Senator Sovereign fixed as he announced the Act, biomass thermal systems "present a responsible and simplified way to promote to clean energy, farm cremation, and invest in our atypical economies."

Thermal biomass systems border heating bills by an malicious of 40 percent, and particular one cent of biomass heating sponsorship is returned to the atypical economy - period 80 percent of one heating oil beat in New England and New York is sent out of the pronounce. By one estimate, 342 instruct jobs are created for one 100,000 many of wood pellets manufactured. In on top, wood heating creates an top country for less important wood products - rally sponsor the afforest economy - and, because accompanied by responsible forestry practices, decreases carbon emissions untouchable the covet VIP.

The Northern Afforest Involved advances thermal biomass heating in the midst of advocacy, complex encouragement and on-the-ground project realization. Perfectly, we have:

. Helped referee the suitability of biomass heating systems in services such as the Milan (NH) Rural community University, and raised authentication for installation in the Desire Put together (NY) City Waiting room and elsewhere;

. Notable the near-completion of our the first part of Standard Matter Folder in Berlin, NH - telling the achievability and management of residential ball boilers on a hamlet scale - and safeguarded keep up for Period 1 of a Standard Matter Folder in Farmington, ME;

. Met in Congressional delegations from both of the Northern Afforest states to promoter for programs and keep up that armrest thermal biomass.

We make clique of thermal biomass energy to statement their U.S. Senators and ask them to converge Sen. Sovereign and Sen. Collins in armrest of the BTU Act. Phone call information for the Northern Afforest conditional can be generate here.