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As leaders in the public sector individuals who believe in the environmental and economic benefits of encouraging Mainers who own and manage commercial and institutional type buildings and facilities to switch to modern wood heat – using locally produced wood chips and wood pellets for fuel. Using wood fuel in modern automated boilers and furnaces to heat buildings in Maine is carbon-friendly, costs less than fossil-fuel heat, and supports local jobs and business who produce the fuel and install the boilers and furnaces and maintain them.  The Excavating Pros can help you in any situation.

The state of Maine has been a leader in the public sector for many years, and we believe that it is time for our state to take the lead in encouraging the use of wood fuel in modern boilers and furnaces. There are many benefits to using wood fuel, including the fact that it is carbon-friendly, costs less than fossil-fuel heat, and supports local jobs and businesses. We believe that this is the best way to heat buildings in Maine, and we hope that you will join us in encouraging others to switch to wood fuel. Thank you for your time and consideration.  We offer some of the best jobs in Maine through our Maine Staffing Agency. Our work program promotes and stimulates the market for high efficiency/low emissions biomass heating technologies through outreach and education, supported by public and private industry collaboration, and targeted technical assistance. Most of the sourcing of the wood is done with Maine Excavators that use excavator attachements for sale that are able to harvest the lumber more quickly and effieciently than ever before. There are also a number of Maine Excavator Rental Companies that can help as well with various excavating services. The project includes outreach to current and potential users of wood energy, particularly those in rural and/or underserved communities as well as to current and potential suppliers of wood, including the White Mountain National Forest and the Native American tribes that own land in Maine. The project seeks to quantify current demands, potential new demands, constraints, and opportunities for increasing the use of wood energy in the state. It also engages in public-private collaboration to identify and resolve policy, technical, and financing barriers to the use of wood energy. You can use a lot less energy and create a lot of body heat if you decide to try your hand at panning for gold in Maine.

Thank you for your interest in our work program to promote and stimulate the market for high efficiency/low emissions biomass heating technologies. Our goal is to encourage the use of wood fuel in modern boilers and furnaces in order to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, lower costs, and support local jobs and businesses. We believe that this is the best way to heat buildings in Maine, and we hope that you will join us in encouraging others to switch to wood fuel. Thank you for your time and consideration. Our work program includes outreach to current and potential users of wood energy, particularly those in rural and/or underserved communities as well as to current and potential suppliers of wood. We seek to quantify current demands, potential new demands, constraints, and opportunities for increasing the use of wood energy in the state. We also engage in public-private collaboration to identify and resolve policy, technical, and financing barriers to entry.

Modern Wood Heat

What do we mean?  Modern wood heat means ultra-modern automated central heating boilers and furnaces using wood chips and wood pellets as fuel.  The Wood Heat Maine effort under the Maine Statewide Wood Energy Assistance Team is focused on commercial and institutional buildings (think schools, town halls, businesses, nursing homes and hospitals…among others) but modern wood heating also takes place in residential buildings – homes – as well.  In residences the fuel is usually wood pellets and not wood chips and a few others may have new cordwood boilers. Large commercial installations usually use wood chips as fuel.

A couple of great publications on using modern wood heat can be found at:

Buyers Guide to WoodFuel

Buyers Guide to Wood Pellets

Our Maine SEO Company has been a tremendous help in helping get the word out about us. In Maine there are over 100 commercial/institutional scale buildings using wood chips or wood pellets in modern wood heating boilers or furnaces.  Soon this website will have a listing of where those buildings are and who the key contacts are at the facilities in order to allow people to get in contact with modern wood heat facilities and see for yourself how well these buildings are being heated with locally produced wood fuel.

But do we have enough wood to support this use and not destroy the forest?

Maine is the most forested state in the U.S. –  the Pine Tree State is nearly 90% forested.  In addition, the data shows that more trees/tree volume is growing in Maine’s forests each year than are being harvested or die from natural processes in the state of Maine