Project story · Garden centre · Quebec
Pépinière Janelle
A 5 million BTU wood chip boiler for a garden centre and nursery in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec. It replaced propane and cut their heating cost about in half.
Location
Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, QC
Business
Garden centre and nursery
System
One SCW boiler
5 million BTU/h (1,465 kW)
Fuel
Wood chips
Replaced
Propane
Installed
2026
Heating cost
About 50% lower
The job
Pépinière Janelle grows a bit of everything: vegetable and herb plants, annuals, perennials, shrubs and roses, fruit trees and conifers.
Until 2026 they heated with propane. Now they burn wood chips.
The 5 million BTU system, set in the new boiler building.
Fuel hopper and boiler, ready to hook up.
What we built
- One 5 million BTU boiler with our chain grate stoker, which handles wet and mixed chips without jamming.
- Firebox, stoker and controls built in our shop in Headingley, Manitoba.
- Controls with remote monitoring, so we see how it runs from our shop.
- A fast install. The system left our shop built and wired, so the work on site went quickly.
“Our heating bill is about half what we paid for propane, and the install went fast. SCW built it, and they still keep an eye on it.”
Pépinière Janelle, Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec
The result
Heating cost is about 50% lower than it was on propane.
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