Customers of Concord Steam looking for options after the company stops delivering heat next spring are invited to a session that will discuss using wood heat and increasing building efficiency.
The Concord Energy and Environment Committee will host the information session on Wednesday, November 2 at New England College’s Concord campus, 62 North Main St.
The session will include presentations from Charlie Niebling of Innovative Natural Resource Solutions on modern wood heating, and Dana Nute of the Resilient Buildings Group on increasing energy efficiency.
It is designed to help customers consider options other than, or in addition to, hooking up to natural gas-fired heat from Liberty Utilities, the company that has bought Concord Steam’s operations.
Concord Steam will close on May 31. It’s wood-burning steam plant on the Hugh Gallen State Office Park on Pleasant Street – a plant that has been bedeviled by maintenance and operational issues – will shut down and steam will no longer to sent through underground pipes to some 180 buildings throughout the city, including four city schools as well as the State house and surrounding buildings.
The information session begins at 5:30 p.m. It is free and open to all.
— David Brooks