Central Maine Alliance

Here's a link to an article from a different thread.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=307031&ac=PHnws

Chris

Thanks for the info. I live in Corinth and hadn't heard anything about this and missed it on the news. I'm not interested in the pellet boiler setup, but I'm curious about the bulk delivery.

I had seen the article in our local paper.

Read with interest.

My jaw dropped when I got to the following statement: "Before tax credits, each highly automated boiler costs about $16,000, including installation and pellet storage."

Not sure of their intended market, but I do not know many Mainers who have $16,000 before tax credits to spend on a residential boiler system.

IMO doing a little shopping, and supplying some sweat equity, that $16,000 would buy a high efficiency gas or oil boiler, a pellet stove, and a wood boiler, (plus tickets to the Daytona 500).

Will be interesting to see how they fare.

Ranger

mainegeek said:

Also, they listed their bulk delivery for a ton at $320 or so.... way to expensive!

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Thanks, good to know, I missed that part.

Guess I expected a bulk ton to be less than a ton o' bags locally.

Lowest I've seen for Corinth pellets is in Exeter at Perkco Feeds for $245.

I agree the article all sounds good, but what population is going to fork over that kind of dough. Must be "the other Maine" we hear about from time to time. A lot of people are living in a dwelling that isn't worth $16000.

I just did a re-read, it says $220 a ton for bulk delivery.

BJN644 said:

I agree the article all sounds good, but what population is going to fork over that kind of dough. Must be "the other Maine" we hear about from time to time. A lot of people are living in a dwelling that isn't worth $16000.

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Yes but someone will be willing to loan them $16,000 at a good rate. They always seem to have everything else, it is likely that you and I might be paying for some of it. So I don't think that is a real obstacle, the real obstacle would be that they don't even own the place they are living in.