Wood Bioenergy » biomass plant http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog a Hatton-Brown publication Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:27:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 We Energies Applies for Biomass Plant in Wisconsin http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/we-energies-applies-for-biomass-plant-in-wisconsin/ http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/we-energies-applies-for-biomass-plant-in-wisconsin/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:17 +0000 Amanda Jo http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/?p=264 We Energies has applied to Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission to build a $255 million, 50-megawatt biomass power plant near Wausau. According to We Energies, this project could create up to 150 permanent jobs.
Construction is projected to begin in 2011, creating about 400 temporary construction jobs.
]]> http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/we-energies-applies-for-biomass-plant-in-wisconsin/feed/ 0 Laidlaw Applies For Plant Permit http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/laidlaw-applies-for-plant-permit/ http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/laidlaw-applies-for-plant-permit/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:09:25 +0000 Amanda Jo http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/?p=165 Laidlaw Berlin BioPower LLC has filed a permit application to construct and operate a proposed 70 MW biomass plant at the former site of the Fraser Papers mill in Berlin, NH. The company was recently notified there is enough transmission capacity in the area to handle the Laidlaw plant’s output, and the Berlin facility would be able to connect to the transmission system with minimal upgrades of less than $1 million. The facility projects to consume 700,000 tons of wood chips annually and employ 40.

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It is estimated that the project will employ around 400 workers for construction and around 70 workers permenently, for logging and processing. The plant will use a variety of wood-waste to make steam, which will drive a turbine and generate power. The company plans to break ground next year.

While the company’s orginal ethanol plans fell through, Northwest Renewables still plans to later add a cellulosic ethanol plant at the same site.

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