Fort Kent gets $2.6M for biomass system
The University of Maine at Fort Kent and the town's public school district have received a $2.6 million federal grant to construct a biomass heating system to heat 11 of the institutions' buildings.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development High Energy Cost Grant Program will fund the purchase and installation of a wood-chip burning boiler connected by underground hot water pipes to nine university buildings and two high school buildings, according to a press release. The $3 million project is expected to lower fuel costs by up to 80% and save more than $4 million in energy costs over the next 10 years. UMFK and MSAD 27 are paying the $383,164 remainder of the project.
In May, UMFK received a $500,000 grant from the Maine Department of Conservation to convert some of its buildings to a wood-to-energy heating system, expected to save nearly $1 million over the next decade.
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