EnergyXchange - A Renewable Energy Center
A Renewable Energy Center
66 EnergyXchange Drive, Burnsville, NC 28714 T: 828-675-5541
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Applications are being accepted for a vacancy in the glass studio. Please submit your application by April 30, 2009. Information regarding the application process is within the Craft Studios pages.
EnergyXchange, a nationally recognized landfill gas project that "turns trash into art and horticultural treasures", will celebrate is tenth anniversary on Earth Day (April 22nd) 2009. Help us celebrate the past, present, and learn about our future. The board members, staff, artists, graduate artists, past board members and partners will gather for a potluck at 5pm on the Yancey-Mitchell landfill campus to commemorate the occasion. If you've been meaning to visit EnergyXchange, please make plans to come up.
Need directions? Call 675-5541.
EnergyXchange is currently investigating new sources of alternate energies that could be tapped before the advent of diminished landfill gas flow. These new energies would insure the continued work of the project well into the future. To support the needed change in infrastructure, a grant has been procured by Yancey County government from the Department of Energy. Stay tuned as the research and new developments are reported here.
The summer studio tour sponsored by Toe River Arts Council will take place June 13, 14th and 15th. EnergyXchange has participated in the summer and holiday TRAC tours since the studios were first completed. Plan to join the tour this year and visit EnergyXchange as well as over a hundred other studios in the area.
For more information about the tour, visit http://www.toeriverarts.org/.
"At the foot of the Black Mountain Range in Burnsville, a landfill gas-to-energy project is fueling the creative work of artists and horticulturists at the Energy Xchange. Wells situated over the landfill pull methane to a central collection station sending it to boilers and craft studios. The gas also heats the greenhouses where native ornamental shrubbery is raised and sold wholesale locally. The two-fold aim of this enterprising organization is promoting responsible energy use as well as expanding economic development in the area. Visitors are often treated to the amazing site of watching a work of art being created right before their eyes and can purchase some of them in the on-site gallery."
-UNC-TV, Our State: The On-Air Magazine