Enrollment for 2012 Alliance Membership Open11/4/2011
November 4 – The NYBEA Board of Directors has set dues levels and benefits for the coming year (see Membership tab at left). Payment of dues after November 1, 2011 earns membership through December, 2012. Current members – and anyone else who wants to lend active support to the effort to build home-grown energy in New York State – are encouraged to sign up promptly, so they will receive advance notice and information about the annual Membership Meeting which will take place in Rensselaer on December 15. ...
Read MoreAlliance Members Participate in Panel on Biomass Heating and CHP Applications9/26/2011
September 26 - Charlie Niebling from New England Wood Pellets, Michael Hagin from Honeywell Building Solutions, and Michael Kelleher from SUNY/ESF joined Nathan Russell from the NYSERDA Heating and Cooling R&D Office in a panel on biomass heating and combined heat and power (CHP) technologies at the 11th annual Symposium on Environmental and Energy Systems sponsored by the Syracuse Center of Excellence on Friday, September 23. Niebling provided an overview of pellet fuel technology and the potential for biomass thermal energy in the region. Hagin discussed a number of larger commercial-scale CHP projects that Honeywell has been implementing in New York and elsewhere. Russell went into the technology of advanced biomass thermal systems at the residential and small commercial scale, including issues of unit sizing. Kelleher showed what SUNY/ESF is doing to utilize advanced renewable technologies, including biomass CHP, in the Gateway building now under construction on t ... Read More