Economic and energy efficiency assessment of biomass harvesting at a northern off-grid community: a case study of Barren Lands First Nation at Brochet, Manitoba, Canada.

• Main Author: Fennell, Kipp
• Other Authors: Thompson, Shirley (Natural Resources Insitute), Neudoerffer,Cynthia (Canadian Foodgrains Bank) Longpre, Trevor (Natural Resources Canada) Westwood, Richard (Natural Resources Institute)
• Language: unknown
• Published: Natural Resources Institute Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, University of Manitoba 2014
• Subjects: Biomass; northern; Brochet; Canada; Barren Lands First Nation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23299

This study was the first to analyze the cost and energy requirements to harvest and transport wood-biomass to an off-grid community, namely Brochet, Manitoba, for the purpose of bioenergy. The study takes the unique local conditions and circumstances of a remote northern off-grid community into cons...