Useful Links

Biomass Energy Quick Assessment Tool.	Two Microsoft Excel-based tools (Lite & Full versions) to evaluate and compare small-scale biomass project financial costs and benefits, includes video demo.
Virginia Community Wood Energy:	Virginia Community Wood Energy Program’s page, an up-to-date, comprehensive site featuring links to project developers and various web-based biomass project analysis tools such as the Wood Energy Financial App ( woodenergyproject.com ) and a mapping tool of Virginia’s boilers
RETScreen	RETScreen is a Clean Energy Management Software system for energy efficiency, renewable energy and cogeneration project feasibility analysis as well as ongoing energy performance analysis.

Propane and Heating Oil Price History	The Energy Information Administration’s Heating and Oil Price History charts current, average pricing for propane and heating oil for the U.S. heating season, October to March.
Fuel Value Calculator	The fifth version of a Microsoft Excel tool from USDA’s Forest Products Laboratory that enables comparison across fuel types. Note this version includes old fuel comparison data.
Wood2Energy.org	This site features a searchable database of industrial facilities using wood for energy in the U.S. and Canada, including information on modern wood energy science and technologies.
BERC Community Scale Project Database	Searchable database of community-scale facilities in the United States and Canada that use modern wood heating or combined heat and power (CHP) systems.

USDA Wood Education & Resource Center	The USDA’s Wood Education and Resource Center website provides information on the U.S. eastern hardwood forest region as well as training and energy grant opportunities for the forest products industry.
Center for Environment & Natural Resource Policy	Link to University of Minnesota Center for Environment & Natural Resource Policy’s academic work in Biomass, Bioenergy, and Climate.
USDA Pacific Northwest Research Station	The Pacific Northwest Research Station conducts research and outreach on a variety of natural resource management and sustainability topics, including wood energy development and resource evaluation.
Statewide Wood Energy Teams	Link to resources, state profiles, and information about the USDA Forest Service Statewide Wood Energy Team activities.

Fairplay Biomass Boiler	This video from Forest Bioenergy at the University of Minnesota recounts the Park County School District’s experience in adopting a biomass boiler to lower fuel costs and improve the school’s overall emissions profile.
Carol Story	This video describes Colorado State University’s experience on a project to re-use forest waste for high-efficiency biomass projects, including a discussion of costs, benefits and lessons learned.