About Us

Up North Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC was started in the Spring of 2009, much out of necessity – we purchased an EKO40 boiler from an internet based company and installed it ourselves. Although not too complicated to install, it proved very difficult to get the system running at an optimum performance level as was promised by the company we purchased it from.

Thus, after many months of late nights and early mornings I was finally able to have the system operating at a performance level that was acceptable to me (although certainly not what I was expecting). As I showed my gasification system to more and more people it quickly became obvious to me that the US market for gasification boilers was extremely new (the traditional method of burning wood in an outdoor wood stove/boiler (OWB) is all that most US citizens are familiar with when it comes to central heating systems).

Thus, having experienced first hand the ultimate efficiency and convenience of a gasification wood boiler system we just had to spread the word. As a degreed Mechanical Engineer and outside salesman for 10+ years, it was obvious that the alternative energy market needed a knowledgeable boiler distributor and consultant!!!!

In the summer of 2009 we became a Paxo boiler distributor for the state of Michigan and installed a demo/working Paxo 25 boiler system inside a brand new 18’ enclosed trailer. We attended the Buckley Steam Engine Show and Michigan Energy Fair in an attempt to educate the traditional wood stove crowd on this much more efficient (90% +) method of burning wood to generate heat and hot water for a typical home or small business.

ONE YEAR LATER!!!! Wow, did I get an education on how the rest of the world does bioenergy.
In the summer of 2010 I attended the World Bioenergy Fair in Sweden (May 25-27th) where I witnessed an amazing amount of technologies that I was not aware of. In addition, I met with Effecta AB – an awesome company that has been producing wood gasification boilers for almost 30 years in Sweden. Effecta currently has 40% of the market share in Sweden for gasification wood/pellet boiler systems and hot water solar systems.

For those of you that don’t know, Sweden has some of the most stringent foresting and wood gasification boiler standards in the world and thus I soon learned that Effecta AB produces some of the worlds most Efficient, Easy to Use and Most Attractive wood gasification boilers in the world.

As we start the New Year (2012) we are pleased to announce that there are 7 Effecta Lambda wood gasification boilers operating in North America and another shipment arriving within the next few weeks. We are very proud to be the exclusive importer and distributor of Effecta wood gasification boilers in North America and encourage you to check them out at www.effecta.us. We look forward to marketing and distributing Effecta Lambda wood gasification boilers in North America over the coming years.

We are currently looking for knowledgeable companies and individuals who would like to learn more about being one of our North America dealers.

Please contact us for all of your wood gasification boiler system needs and questions and have a great New Year!

Brian Crawford,
President