Heating

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Heating Cooling with Biomass

• Biomass to Business Workshop
• March 25, 2004
• Albuquerque, NM
• Rob Davis

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Densified Wood Pellet Products
Biomass Heating / Cooling Systems
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How Did This All Start?

• What do I think sounds good?
• Does anybody agree?
• Are they a customer or competitor?
• How much market is really out there?
• What is it really going to take to do this?

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Two Recurring Thoughts

• Do I really want to do this?
• Money
• To research and plan it
• To build it
• To start it the tip of the iceberg
• To run it a while w/o enough income the rest of
  the iceberg the need for the contingency plan

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Plan

• A plan
• A document that firmly states how you are going
  to proceed with what you need to do to be
  successful,
• and that can constantly change when you find it
  doesnt work.

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Barriers

• Hard Barriers
• Soft Barriers
• Money

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Perceptions - Misperceptions

• What is our business?
• Bioenergy
• Biofuels
• Competitiveness with conventional
• Distributed Generation vs. Distributed Heat
• Were going backwards Wood Heating

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Helpful Incentive

• NO BURN DAYS

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Lack of Incentives

• Sales Tax Exemption
• Mandates Automatic Market Development
• Renewable / Fossil Fuel replacement credits

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Public Grants / Private Dollars

• Research or demo vs. viable business
• Viable private funding credibility
• Gov funding credibilitymore Gov funding
  recognition

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Permits / Regulations

• Environmental Permits
• Do it right. We are a sound environmental
  solution keep it that way
• Dont be tight, requirements arent going to get
  easier
• The worst case can always get worse
• Local Regulations
• Communicate Dont let misperceptions start

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Markets for Biomass Systems

• Now
• Residential Fuel Pellets Bagged
• Commercial Biomass Heating Systems
• Commerical Biomass Cooling Systems
• Future
• Residential Fuel Pellets Bulk
• Commercial Fuel Pellets Bulk
• Commercial Fuel Chips - Bulk