Thank you, Mr. Chair. If you look at some of the trends that we have with our Biomass Initiative, currently we have 21 facilities connected to biomass boilers and those are producing savings right now. We have another six that are essentially under construction or are funded and moving forward right now. Then we have three more that are planned.
If you look at where we were at in 2011, about 16 percent of our total heating load of our managed assets were heated by biomass. Right now, at the
end of this fiscal year, and we’re just updating our numbers now, so we’ll really have something more as we get into business planning and we have our year-end numbers, but right now in ’12-13, we’re looking at about 23.5 to 24 percent of our total heating load. Then if you look at all the projects that we have underway, under construction and planned, we’ll be close to 30 percent of our total heating load of the buildings that PWS manages that are heated by biomass.
You can see the trend is increasing in biomass and consumption of fossil fuels is going down. Also, we have our CARF projects, as well, that contribute to the savings, and we’re in the process of updating those numbers as well.
We’ve had a lot of envelope upgrades. We did the electric boiler conversion in Fort Smith. We’ve had a significant number of projects this year that are going to produce some updated numbers at the end of this fiscal year.