Viability, LLC Achieves First Domestic Voluntary Carbon Standard Validation for Biomass Thermal Project
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Jun 23, 2010
Contact: Dan Kuipers, Senior Carbon Specialist
616-396-6101, dan@viabilityonline.com
Viability, LLC Achieves First Domestic Voluntary Carbon Standard Validation for Biomass Thermal Project
Viability, an economic development firm centered around renewable energy and energy efficiency projects recently had its project design document for the fuel switch from natural gas to renewable biomass for thermal purposes validated under the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS).
This project is the first US based project to become validated under the VCS using UNFCCC approved methodology AMS-I.C. The AMS-I.C. methodology specifically addresses end users of thermal energy and/or electricity to adopt less intensive Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission measures through application of specific technological or management approaches.
Under AMS-I.C. renewable biomass is considered to have a net GHG emission factor of zero, as any GHG emissions resulting from the combustion of biomass material is less than or equal to the amount of GHGs absorbed through photosynthetic processes.
This project will reduce carbon emissions by approximately 100,000 metric tons over its lifetime and is a key source of revenue that supports the use of non-traditional fuels for energy purposes.
The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) was created as a globally recognizable standard providing a transparent and credible process for creating carbon offsets for voluntary projects that reduce GHG emissions.
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Post on Jun 23 in Press ReleasesViability’s Dan Kuipers a Thought Leader In Energy
Thought Leader in Energy Dan Kuipers: Demonstrating what works
By Mark Sanchez
Business Review West Michigan, May 12, 2010
Dan Kuipers, Senior Carbon Specialist
Dan Kuipers started at Viability as an intern three years ago — a position he parlayed into a permanent job with the Holland company, where he works with clients on biomass energy projects.
“How do we find a way to actually effect change?” Kuipers said. “The way we do that is to demonstrate the technology actually works.”
What sparked your interest in alternative energy?
My background is in natural resources management. I view the world through an ecological lens with a keen understanding of the many interwoven complexities between energy, resources, people, the environment, and economic equality.
Working on the very simple pretense that more people equates to more resource consumption, and that more resource consumption typically leads to increased environmental degradation, financial incentives must be leveraged in order to generate new approaches to solving old problems, jump start promising technologies and projects, and to “level the playing field” for technologies that currently are not as financially attractive as traditional energy-generation technologies.
What is your greatest accomplishment in alternative energy?
Authoring the first project-design document in the United States validated under the Voluntary Carbon Standard utilizing AMS I.C. — “Thermal energy without electricity production” — for a large greenhouse production facility.
This project will create carbon credits annually for 10 years that the greenhouse will be able to use as an additional revenue stream to make the installation and implementation of a large biomass boiler system a financially feasible option.
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