Canadian Biomass is bringing the message of bioheat benefits to key industries with Bioheat Week. We’ve partnered with eight national media brands to help spread awareness of woody biomass heating solutions from May 12-16, 2025.
Follow along all week (#BioheatWeek) as we will highlight feature stories, columns and research both from our archives as well as brand-new stories about industries turning to bioheat solutions across Canada.
This year’s Bioheat Week include free-to-attend webinars:
2025 Sponsors
Hosted by Canadian Biomass, Bioheat Week is held in partnership with these media brands:
- Canadian Forest Industries
- Pulp & Paper Canada
- Canadian Contractor
- Energy Manager Canada
- HPAC Magazine
- Greenhouse Canada
- Canadian Process Equipment & Controls News
Our Bioheat Week landing page will become a year-round hub for industry and curious minds to learn best practices and find the latest information on bioheat.
Thank you to our sponsors for making this week possible: Wood Pellet Association of Canada, Fink Machine, Heizomat Canada, and Hurst Boiler.
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The advantages of prefabricated biomass boiler plants for rural and remote communities
In an era where sustainability is a global
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May 15, 2025
Slowing the spread: A biomass-focused wildfire prevention strategy
Every year around springtime, the federal, provincial and
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May 13, 2025
Nature and nurture
Custom installations at a New Brunswick tree nursery and elementary school highlight the
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May 12, 2025
Community Project of the Year Sissons Court: Yellowknife, N.W.T.
Operational since May 2022, Sissons Court’s biomass district
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April 15, 2025
Pursuing a new CSA Standard to heat Canada with wood pellets
As the world’s coldest country, Canada consumes a
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April 8, 2025
WPAC expands international reach with new website and Japanese market awareness campaign
Wood Pellet Association of Canada (WPAC) is making
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March 26, 2025
Petawawa to “nudge” province on biomass plant project
Mayor Gary Serviss of Petawawa, Ont. has written
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March 3, 2025
Bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS): The basics and its role in Canada
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is
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May 10, 2024
Bioheat transformation in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., garners top 2024 Canadian Biomass Award
In the small, remote village of Fort Simpson,
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May 3, 2024
AEA wins accolades for pioneering community heating solutions at Canadian Biomass Awards
In the frostbitten reaches of the Northwest Territories,
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March 5, 2024
Thermal networks: The missing infrastructure we need to help enable carbon-free heating
Most of us who live in the Northern
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February 20, 2024
Normandin Research Farm installing pellet biomass heating system at cost of $835,000
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has received $835,000
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February 5, 2024
Leaders eye possibility of wood pellet heating system for community of Wekweètı̀, N.W.T.
The senior administrative officer of Wekweètì, N.W.T., says his
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January 30, 2024
A new year has begun and WPAC is ready!
Canada’s pellet sector is a global powerhouse not
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January 11, 2024
Prairie clean energy, Sask Polytech launch prairie biomass initiatives
Earlier this year Saskatchewan-based business, Prairie Clean Energy received a
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November 17, 2023
Forestry commission provides P.E.I. government with five bioheat recommendations
The P.E.I. government has begun to review the
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October 11, 2023
Revelstoke, B.C., to host bioheat summit next week
Rural, resource-based communities are exploring options to boost
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August 29, 2023
Yukon government signs bioheat purchase agreement with Teslin Tlingit Council
The Yukon government and the Teslin Tlingit Council
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May 26, 2023
Yukon elementary school installs biomass heating system
The Elijah Smith Elementary School in Whitehorse is
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May 23, 2023
Advancing Wood Pellet Systems in Canada webinar draws hundreds
Advancing wood pellet heating systems in Canada is
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May 12, 2023
6 highlights from the first annual Bioheat Week
Canadian Biomass teamed up this year with eight
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May 11, 2023
The Canadian Bioheat Database is going online
The Canadian Bioheat Database, first developed in 2014
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May 10, 2023
New white paper accelerates the shift to bioheat in Canada
Harry “Dutch” Dresser and Gordon Murray explain how a new white paper addresses
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May 9, 2023
20/20 hindsight: 5 biomass boiler blunders and what I’d do next time
Heizomat Canada’s Grant Rawcliffe shares 5 things he’d do differently after 9 years
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May 9, 2023
WPAC Report: Wood pellets taking centre stage
Wood pellets are going mainstream in the seismic shift toward clean energy, writes WPAC
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May 8, 2023
University’s biomass plant surpasses targets for energy‑efficiency gains
Dalhousie fired up its revamped biomass plant in
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May 8, 2023
Pel-air systems: Pellet boilers meet forced air heating
HPAC magazine writer John Siegenthaler explores design options for retrofitting a pellet
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May 4, 2023
Upcoming webinar: Biomass heating – a low cost and low carbon option
Curious about key aspects of developing a quality
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May 3, 2023
The inaugural Bioheat Week is coming soon!
Canadian Biomass is bringing the message of bioheat
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May 2, 2023
Upcoming webinar: Advancing wood pellet heating systems in Canada
In Canada, around 80 per cent of home
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January 31, 2023
N.W.T. energy conference lights up biomass heating solutions
The 2023 Northwest Territories Biomass Week draws support from federal, territorial and
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August 5, 2022
Arctic bioenergy: Study finds wood-based heat and power can benefit the North
For Canada’s northern and remote communities, bioenergy represents an opportunity not
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June 13, 2022
Study to explore biomass district energy heating in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
A heating network using biomass and wind energy would connect over 90 per cent of
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May 19, 2022
Heating Yellowknife: District energy system helps NWT reduce carbon footprint
A new district energy system in Yellowknife from J&R Mechanical is helping the N.W.T.
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April 13, 2022
A perfect match: European boilers and Canadian wood pellets
How matching the best of European boiler technology with wood pellets will benefit
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April 12, 2022
First Schmid biomass boiler installed in Canada
With a desire to reduce the ecological footprint
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March 14, 2022
Opinion: The missing low-carbon infrastructure
How heat networks can help decarbonize Canada’s cities and
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March 9, 2022
New guidance on managing air emissions from small solid biomass combustors highlights importance of wood biomass
The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
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November 22, 2021
Making a switch: chicken farmer sees benefits transitioning to oat hull pellets for heating
Canada is one of the largest producers of
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November 17, 2021
Going green: Greenhouse sees benefits switching to a wood chip boiler for heating
In April 2020, when Frédéric Tremblay installed a
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November 3, 2021
From cardboard to pellets: pilot project in Inuvik looks to use waste cardboard for heating
A pilot research project that began in Inuvik, N.W.T.,
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June 8, 2021
Opinion: Realizing the benefits of combined heat and power systems
Efficiency is important. We talk about it a
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June 7, 2021
WPAC Maritime Bioheat conference highlights potential for biomass heating in Canada
The first-ever Maritime Bioheat Conference, Net Zero by
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May 13, 2021
WPAC webinar highlights opportunity for boiler standards modernization in Canada
On May 7, I had the honour of
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April 6, 2021
Heating up: BSB installs first-of-its-kind steam wood pellet boiler in North America
What do you get when you team up
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August 18, 2020
Remotely powerful: Nine rural communities’ experience with bioenergy – Part 4
A look at the communities’ training and capacity
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August 11, 2020
Remotely powerful: Nine rural communities’ experience with bioenergy – Part 3
A look at the communities’ biomass fuels and supply
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August 4, 2020
Remotely powerful: Nine rural communities’ experience with bioenergy – Part 2
A look at the technical and operational
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July 28, 2020
Remotely powerful: Nine rural communities’ experience with bioenergy – Part 1
[Editor’s note: this article is the first in
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July 13, 2020
WPAC: to lower GHG emissions, BC should prioritize solid biofuels for heat
In 2018, the Government of British Columbia released
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June 30, 2020
Biofuel boiler puts the ‘green’ in greenhouse
Talk about walking a fine line. Greenhouse growers
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May 22, 2020
From propane to biomass: BC community undertakes biomass heating project
The transition from fossil fuels to sustainable sources
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May 12, 2020
Untying the Gordian Knot: changing pellet boiler standards would benefit Canadians
In September 2017, the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic
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March 18, 2020
Case study: HVTS cladding helps prevent boiler corrosion
A-waste-to-energy (WtE) boiler was experiencing fireside corrosion. Shop-applied
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March 2, 2020
FPInnovations releases new guide on solid wood bioheat
Canada is a winter nation resulting in Canadians
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March 2, 2020
PEI’s biomass boiler story
Inside Steven Townsend’s efforts to change PEI’s biomass boiler
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February 28, 2020
Down with diesel? Tsay Keh Dene Nation looks to biomass for heating needs
Tsay Keh Dene Nation has embarked on a
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February 6, 2020
Ontario’s outdated emissions factors preventing use of bioheat systems
Modern wood heating technology could help Ontarians drastically
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October 30, 2019
Boiler maintenance best practices
Industry experts share tips for properly maintaining biomass
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September 10, 2019
CSA publishes first Canadian guide for wood chip fuel
A new CSA SPE 2254:19 Guide to Wood
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August 9, 2019
Oujé-Bougoumou installs Canada’s largest containerized wood biomass boiler
A first nation in northern Quebec that has
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July 10, 2019
Pellet boiler reduces BC schools’ heating costs
Cataline Elementary, a school in Williams Lake, B.C.,
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March 7, 2019
Eliminating boiler barriers in Canada
March 7, 2019 - Canada produces about three million tonnes of wood pellets a year,
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November 6, 2018
Bioheat blunders: Typical mistakes made by new wood heating projects
Nov. 6, 2018 - Over the past 10 years the development of biomass heating projects has
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March 23, 2018
Calculate the benefits of a new modern wood pellet boiler
March 23, 2018 - Demand for premium wood pellets in the U.S. is dominated by households
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February 21, 2018
Burning red tape: Ontario eases boiler permitting
Feb. 21, 2018 - The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) recently
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February 1, 2018
Equipment spotlight: 2018 boiler buyers guide
Feb. 1, 2018 - Canadian Biomass takes a look at the newest boiler technology for Canadian
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October 18, 2017
New wood pellet heat website officially launches
Oct. 18, 2017 - The Wood Pellet Association of Canada (WPAC), in partnership with
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September 29, 2017
New Brunswick schools choose biomass boilers
Sept. 29, 2017 - Two New Brunswick high schools are receiving an education in biomass
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September 27, 2017
Editorial: Heating north of 60 with biomass
Sept. 28, 2017 - We know the majority of Canadians live within 160 kilometres of the U.S.
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August 22, 2017
Remote Haida community installs 720-kW biomass boiler
Aug. 22, 2017 - From tiny seedlings mighty cedars grow. Or, in this case, from $30,000
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August 1, 2017
BCIT burning to learn with biomass-fuelled boiler system
Aug. 1, 2017 - The boiler system residing at the British Columbia Institute of Technology
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February 1, 2017
Spotlight on biomass boilers
Feb. 3, 2017 - Canadian Biomass has the latest in biomass boiler technology available to
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November 25, 2016
Developing solid standards for biomass
November 25, 2016 - The use of solid biomass - in the form of wood chips, pellets,
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November 18, 2016
NRCan publishes Solid Biofuels Bulletins
November 18, 2016 - Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has produced a collection of
