The future heating plant has a project page, and the college has issued a request for qualifications (pdf). The college is talking to the town about a site (Union Leader). The project includes the decommissioning of the historic heating plant but does not address the possible demolition of that building; nevertheless, an article in the Valley News includes this somewhat sickening point:

Hanover officials, who have set sustainable energy goals as well, seemed to embrace the concept. Planning Board Chair Judith Esmay said the eventual tearing down of the 175-foot brick smokestack at the oil-burning plant could turn into a “community event.”

The revived campus master plan project “will envision replacement of the existing power plant — located at the campus core — that will be replaced by an offsite biomass energy plant.”