Alaska Wood Energy Associates

Alaska Wood Energy Associates (AWEA) was developed to offer a complete integrated package of wood energy development services tailored for Alaskan Rural Villages.Our team has years of experience working in rural Alaskan villages on natural resource and energy projects. Potential services include forest assessment for sustainable delivery of wood, harvest plan development, harvest company development and business plans, final design, permitting and construction of wood energy systems at the village and building scale, development of funding packages, energy business feasibility and business plan development.

AWEA is composed of a group of associates including foresters, harvest and wood conversion equipment experts, engineers, training/facilitation and financial experts. All have allied themselves under the leadership of Bill Wall, PhD, principle of Sustainability, Inc., to form Alaska Wood Energy Associates. 

AWEA Mission, Vision and Values
Mission:
Develop sustainable systems for Combined Heat Power Food and Fuel in rural communities. 
Vision:
Energy independent villages in rural Alaska subsisting off of renewable resources from local sources. Villages capable of producing their own food in greenhouses, their own heat from a combination of wood and other site specific re-newables, and their own power and their own liquid fuel. 

Core Values:
Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability through:
-Community involvement
-Sound science
-Area specific models 
Communication
Accountability
Education
-management capacity development
-involvement of schools in projects
-training for new jobs created through projects