COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CUTS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WITH WOODY BIOMASS BOILER

Colorado State University
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

FORT COLLINS - Colorado State University has partnered with the Colorado State Forest Service to install a biomass boiler heating plant on the Foothills Campus to reduce the university's greenhouse gas emissions and cut energy costs.

The heating plant will burn wood chips rather than rely solely on natural gas to provide hot water for the Judson M. Harper Research Complex. The wood chips are a result of forest restoration and management efforts such as forest fire mitigation projects, which typically supply about 10 tons of wood chips per acre.

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