Onsite - June 2009

Reflections from…

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Ann McIver, QEP Director of Environmental Stewardship Citizens Energy Group

“I think one of the biggest challenges that all IDEA members will face in the future is reducing our use of fossil fuels as we provide low-cost, reliable energy for our customers. In my mind, the forces to reduce the use of fossil fuels will come at IDEA members from both the environmental and fuels security aspects. Mitigating the impacts associated with the production of district energy on the environment – carbon emissions and emissions of criteria and hazardous air pollutants – will require further innovation in biomass fuels to meet the fuel-volume demands of the larger systems. Many key stakeholders, including IDEA members, are working diligently to kick start that innovation to get us into the next 100 years.”