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Center for Sustainable Biomaterials & Bioenergy

WERC Statewide Wood Energy Team

On-going and Future Work

The West Virginia Statewide Wood Energy Team is progressively working with industry partners and stakeholders toward the installation including the poultry grower and processer, Allegheny Wood Products, Appalachian Wood Pellets, and New Horizon Corporation to achieve a wood boiler installation on a poultry production house in West Virginia.

  • Continue to analyze biomass availability data and identify potential biomass suppliers
  • Continue to identify and map potential biomass suppliers
  • Further develop logistics and cost factors in terms of procurement radius for targeted poultry growers
  • Monitor poultry house conditions and benefits at site with installed wood energy system
  • Outreach to inform additional poultry growers of wood energy conversion and benefits with demo case from installed system