Biomass is becoming an important part of New Brunswick’s forestry and energy sectors. Now, Groupe Savoie and Compact Appliances have teamed up to create Biomass Solutions Biomasse, a company dedicated to replacing fossil fuels with biomass heating solutions.
The company is the brainchild of two well-known New Brunswick businessmen: Jean Claude Savoie, owner of Groupe Savoie in Saint Quentin, and Malcolm Fisher, owner of Compact Appliances in Sackville. The firm offers green energy solutions for buildings throughout Eastern Canada including government, institutional, commercial, industrial, greenhouses, churches, poultry farms and other structures.
Biomass Solutions Biomasse recently installed a first-of-its-kind wood pellet steam boiler, a carbon-friendly, efficient system for the amalgamated Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick-Université de Moncton Shippagan campus in New Brunswick.
“One of the prime motivators for the project was the Kyoto Protocol at the time, and everyone was talking about carbon taxes, and taxes on oil of upwards to $20 per tonne,” Serge Mallet, who led the installation at the campus and today oversees its day-to-day management, said in a recent article promoted by ForestNB.
“Pellets are a renewable and responsible source of energy and were already being produced in New Brunswick for international and domestic customers, so why not use the local pellet supplier?”