For many people, biomass as a fuel was associated with inefficient, smoky, open fires and carrying heavy baskets of dirty logs.  More recently, the rise in popularity of domestic wood burning stoves has helped to make the use of woodfuel a fashionable lifestyle option.

There are, however, a number issues that must be considered when planning a biomass installation:

• Biomass is not piped directly into buildings on demand like Natural Gas
• Fuel quality must be considered during planning of a system and fuel purchase
• Domestic and light industrial biomass boiler systems tend to be physically larger and more expensive than their fossil fuel equivalents
• The biomass energy market in Western Canada is much less mature than either the fossil fuel market, or than the biomass market in many other countries.