Ketchikan, Alaska’s Federal Building to convert to wood pellets
January 5th, 2011 in News Archive
The Associated Press
Anchorage Daily News
KETCHIKAN, Alaska – The U.S. government is going to spend nearly $4.5 million to replace an old oil-burning boiler in Ketchikan’s Federal Building with an environmentally friendly biomass boiler.
The money is coming to Ketchikan through the federal government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The new boiler will be the General Services Administration’s first installation of a commercial biomass boiler. Biomass boilers use “densified wood” pellets to produce heat.
