Biomass Heat Success Story in Matapedia –

Biomass Heat Success Story in Matapedia –
how to do it right!
Robert Prinz
Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla
Dominik Röser
Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla
Yoland Legare
Coopérative forestière de la Matapédia
Metsäntutkimuslaitos
Skogsforskningsinstitutet
Finnish Forest Research Institute
www.metla.fi
BACKGROUND
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Matapedia, Quebec
Gaspesian
Peninsula
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Québec
Energy Consumption in Québec
Source : Ressources naturelles et Faune (2005)
Biomass and other forms of renewable energies still have to be developed
Matapédia Forest Co-Operative
CFM Wood
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SERCO
Wood
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AN IMPORTANT SOCIO-ECONOMICAL PARTNER
IMPRESSIVE OUTCOMES FOR 2007-2008:
77 members
Sales: 11,5 M $
IN THE FOREST
73 forest workers
Total Harvest: 223 525 solid m3
Road Construction: 52 km
Commercial Thinning: 118 ha
AT THE MILL
23 workers
7 610 000 pmp of total production
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Biomass Heat Project History in La Matapédia
• Hydro-Québec’s dual energy rate’s abolition 2008
• from 3.5 cents/kwh to 8 cents/kwh
• The forest crisis
• Approach of potential clients
• Pre-feasibility study
• Agreement of all stakeholders
• Technical and Economical Feasibility study
for the Amqui Hospital
• Search for project funding
The Inspiration
SUPPLY CHAIN PROJECT
Forest Biomass Harvest Project in Matapédia
Feedstock
Biomass :
• Harvested wood
• Harvest residues
• Non-utilized timber
• Sawmill wastes
(chips, sawdust, bark)
Source: Feric
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Unpiled residues
Hauling and piling
Operation integrated into
Traditional timber harvesting
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Hauling and piling
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Sources of supply
Crown land:
10 300 tmv supply allocated to the Coopérative Forestière de La Matapédia for
regional heating projects
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Sources of supply
Private Forest:
Interesting supply source to develop, near processing centers
Roadside chipping
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Storage
AMQUI HOSPITAL PROJECT
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Amqui Hospital
• Heated building: Amqui Hospital
• Power : 500 kw & 800 kw
• Annual Consumption: 3 675 000 kw
• Coopérative forestière de La Matapédia
• Management
• Maintenance
• Supply
• Owner: CSSS de La Matapédia
Rationale provided to the decision makers
• Most effective energetic use
• Energetic effectiveness about 80 %
• Totally automated boilers with high
environmental and energetic performance
readily available
• Replace a fossil fuel for which costs are
rising
• Direct economic benefits for communities
• Development opportunity more accessible
for local businesses
• The money spent to buy energy stays in the
region
Rationale provided to the decision makers
Energy cost for different sources
Forest
Biomass
Mill residues
Electricity
Fuel oil
Référence: prix 2008
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Rationale provided to the decision makers
Improvement of:
• Silvicultural
• degraded
stand salvage
Amqui project
 Investment costs 1.4 million CAD
 Savings of 120 000 CAD annually
 13 years payback
 7 years payback after subsidy
 Savings are used to pay the loan
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Amqui Hospital Boiler House
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Amqui Hospital Boiler House
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Extension & Education
Presentation
General principle
Overview
Supply chain
Why use forest
biomass?
6. Burning and
distribution system
7. Residues
8. Control system
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KEY TO SUCCESS
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Governmental support measures
MAMROT’s Rural Lab – Bois Énergie Matapédia
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7 heat projects (2 less than 500 kW)
Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
3 studies (ashes, product chain and accompanying service)
80 000 CAD/year for 6 years
Objectives
• Bring forest biomass to institutional buildings
• Demonstrate the value of forest biomass
• Document the energy production steps (harvest, conditioning and
storage, heating).
• Demonstrate the benefits
• Develop expertise in and beyond the region
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Governmental support measures
Energy efficiency program of AEE
• Pilot project: 2 boiler rooms (network and
individual)
• Determine quantitative and qualitative
parameters for forest biomass preparation
processes and heat with adapted equipment
• Install boilers and commission them
• Refine measurement and control elements
• Assess yield, energetic impacts, and air
• Present the outcomes
• 2 x 50 000 CAD
Create Business opportunities
Developing a local wood energy chain must allow to:
Boost the energy chain:
Widen forest entrepreneurs interventions
Create new jobs
Value local renewable resources
Improve silviculture
Help wood activity centers emergence
Develop expertise:
For conception, commissioning and boilers operation
To manufacture heating systems
To export (technology, know-how or biomass)
Model for success – involvement of all stakeholders
Forest
owners
Public
Politics
Matapedia
Local
Expertise
Cooperative
Education
Networks
A wide-ranging Partnership
Regional and municipal partners
•MRC de la Matapédia
•Société de développement économique d'Amqui (SODAM)
•SADC de La Matapédia
•CLD de la Matapédia
•Centre matapédien d’études collégiales (CMEC)
•Centre local d’emploi d’Amqui
•Danielle Doyer, députée de Matapédia
•Conseil québécois de la coopération et de la mutualité (CQCM)
•Conseil de bassin versant de la rivière Matapédia (CBVRM)
•Chambre de commerce de la Matapédia
•Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique
(AQLPA)
•Association Coopérative forestière Régionale de la Gaspésie
•Commission de développement de Causapscal
•Agence de la santé et des services sociaux du Bas-St-Laurent
A wide-ranging Partnership
Technical partners
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Service de recherche et d’expertise en
transformation des produits forestiers (SEREX)
Fédération québécoise des coopératives
forestières (FQCF)
Centre de formation et d’extension en foresterie
de l’Est-du-Québec (CFOR)
FP Innovation, FERIC
CDR Bas-Saint-Laurent
Laboratoire des technologies de l’énergie (LTE)
Gestion Conseils PMI
Model for success – involvement of all stakeholders
Forest
owners
Public
Politics
Matapedia
Local
Expertise
Cooperative
Education
Networks
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Next big project going online in the fall of 2011
Amqui
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Town of Amqui district heating network
• Heated buildings: municipal ownership
• Boiler size: 500 kw
• Coopérative forestière de La Matapédia
• Management
• Fuel supply
• Maintenance
• Owner: Town of Amqui
Next big project going online in the fall of 2011
Causapscal
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Causapscal’s District heating network
• Heated buildings:
• Municipal buildings
• Schools
• Church
• Boiler size: 600 kw
• Coopérative forestière de La Matapédia
• Management
• Maintenance
• Supply
• Owner: not determined yet
To develop a wood energy chain is
having a project for the whole region…
www.forestenergy.org
Robert Prinz
robert.prinz@metla.fi
Kamloops 2010
Thank you!
2.5.2011
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