Renewable Heat New York

Collaborative Stove Design Workshop

November 2014

Ellen Burkhard, Ph.D.Senior Project Manager

Renewable Heat New YorkAnnounced in Governor Cuomo’s 2014 State of the State Address

Built upon NYSERDA’s biomass heating R&D program to bring advanced technologies into the NYS heating market

Retirement of outdoor wood boilers, indoor wood boilers and wood stoves

Commercial pellet boiler heating systems

Residential pellet boiler heating systems and stoves

Residential/small commercial advanced cordwood boilers with full thermal storage

Continued R&D

Workforce development for proper system design, sizing and quality installations

John Rhodes, President and CEO, NYSERDA announcing Renewable Heat NY July 29th, 2014. Photo credit: Pyramid Energy EES.

Qualified Pellet Boiler Technologies

Must be >85% thermal efficiency, PM2.5 <0.080 lb/MMBtu, and CO <270 ppm at 7% O2

Automatic Pellet Heating System and Bulk Delivery

80,000 Btu/hr Evo World pellet boiler and buffer

tank

Pellet conveyance between pellet storage shed and pellet boiler

Pellet delivery truck supplying pellets to the

pellet storage shed

Vincent’s Heating and Fuel bulk pellet delivery

truck

Qualified Advanced Cordwood Boiler Technologies

Must be >60% annual efficiency by BNL PTS and be accepted by NYSDEC. PM <0.32 lb/MMBtu, report CO

Advanced cordwood boiler in outbuilding

Advanced cordwood boiler

Seasoned wood is kept dry.

Thermal storage tank in basement of farmhouse

Maximizing performance with thermal storage

1250 gallons

Customer Type System Type/ Technology Incentive Amount

Residential Wood Pellet Stove(<2.0 g/h EPA certified)

Advanced Cordwood Boiler with Full Thermal Storage

Small Pellet Boiler with Thermal Storage

$1,000 with wood stove retirement (up to $1,500 for income qualified homeowners)

$4,000 based on 20% of installed cost *

25% of installed costs *

*an additional $4,000 for the recycling of old outdoor/indoor wood boiler or $2,000 for recycling a whole house wood furnace

Renewable Heat NY

Must use qualified technology and qualified installer

Customer Type System Type/ Technology Incentive AmountSmall Commercial(<300,000 Btu/h)

Advanced Cordwood Boiler with Full Thermal Storage

Small Pellet Boiler with Thermal Storage

$4,000 based on 20% of installed cost *

25% of installed costs *

*an additional $4,000 for the recycling of old outdoor/indoor wood boiler or $2,000 for recycling a whole house wood furnace is also available

Renewable Heat NY

Low-interest financing is also available

Must use qualified technology and qualified installer

Customer Type System Type/ Technology Incentive Amount

Large Commercial(>300,000 Btu/h)

Large Pellet Boiler with Thermal Storage

Tandem Pellet Boiler with Thermal Storage

20% of total installed cost ($100,000 maximum incentive)

25% of total installed cost ($150,000 maximum incentive)

Renewable Heat NY

Sizing < 60% design day load, thermal storage, careful system integration with existing heating system and heat distribution system and controls.

Technical assistance for energy study, and review of commissioning and first year of Measurement and Verification.

Must use qualified technology.

Development of test method for advanced cord wood boiler technologies with thermal storage

Heating Load

Output

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Extra heat is stored in the hot water tank until later use.

Thermal Storage

Syracuse, NY heat load

Ranch-style home, 2500 ft2 R-13

NYSERDA (2012)

Heat Load Analysis

25% hours 50% hours 5% hours

10% hours40% hours

Wood Heating Technologies

Fine Particle Emissions (lb/day) from Residential Heating Systems for a January day in Upstate NY

Fine particles (lb)

Advanced cordwood boiler

High-efficiency pellet boiler

EN 303-5 BNL PTS

DustLb/MMBtu

EFF (lhv)

Eff (hhv)

PM2.5Start(g)

PM2.5 SS(g)

PM2.5End(g)

M2.5Run averageLb/MMBtu

Eff(hhv)

100% load SS

0.06 93 86 100%Hot Start

2.8 17.6 6.1 0.18 77

<15% Cold Start

11.8 7.3 3.7 0.18 69

Annual weighting 0.18(2g/h)

70

Why do we need a full-duty cycle test that isolates start-up, SS, and end phases?

THANK YOU!

Ellen Burkhard

Ellen.Burkhard@nyserda.ny.gov

www.nyserda.ny.gov/renewableheat

Renewable Heat NY

• The Installer works with the customer to assess the project and fill-out the application, signed off by the customer.

• The Project Application includes information about the home, existing boiler, and the biomass boiler being installed with the Manual J calculation attached.

• Once the application is received and meets the program requirements, NYSERDA will approve the application and notify the Installer.

Project Application Process

Heating Fuels ($ per MMBtu)

Energy Trends

Using NYSERDA report “Patterns & Trends: New York State Energy Profiles 1996-2010”2011-2013 data from “Historical Prices: 1997-2013” and using conversion factors *2013 only has through April 2013

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013*

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Heating OilPropaneNatural GasCord Wood

Pellet Stoves

The following incentives are available toward the purchase of a new pellet stove for use in a primary residence, without natural gas service:

Qualification Incentive Amount

Market Rate with Recycling $1,000

Income Qualified (No Recycling) $1,000

Income Qualified, add optional Recycling $1,500

The new stove can provide either primary or supplemental heating and must be at or below 2.0 grams per hour particulate matter emissions on the ‘EPA List of Certified Wood Heaters’ (latest version May 2014).