Small chunks of wood streamed onto a mountain of wood chips nearly 100 feet high, towering over workers making final adjustments at Dominion’s just-reopened Altavista Power Station last Friday as the plant fired up its boilers for the first time in about 2½ years. The plant — reconfigured to burn biomass, or waste wood products, [...]
Wisconsin Biomass Plant On Track To Begin Running In Late 2013
More than 400 people have helped build the $250 million biomass power plant that now towers over Business Highway 51 and the Wisconsin River, and their months of hard work have the project on schedule to begin generating power late this year. When the facility opens, a parade of 50 to 75 semitrucks every weekday [...]
New Portable Biomass Power Plant Draws Visitors To Virginia Tech Campus
Thirty visitors from as far away as New York and Guatemala recently journeyed to the Thomas M. Brooks Forest Products Center in February to see demonstrations of the Department of Sustainable Biomaterials’ new portable biomass power plant. About the size of a Mini Cooper turned upright, the biomass power system generates electricity by burning wood [...]
Standardkessel To Build 7.5MW Biomass Plant In Hawaii
Standardkessel, the long established German power plant technology company, has just closed it’s first U.S. based dedicated biomass project. The plant is situated on the fourth largest Hawaiian island of Kaua’i and will provide base load electrical demand for the island’s 65,000 population. The plant will be the first closed loop biomass power plant to [...]
Oji To Sell Biomass Power To Counter Slide In Paper Sales
When the demand for paper products is shrinking year after year, do you just fold up and wait to die? Not for Oji Holdings Corp, which is now focusing on selling biomass power to take advantage of government subsidies for renewable energy and to address the slide in paper sales. According to Shoji Fujiwara, chairman [...]
Biomass Fuel Suppliers Announced By Ontario Power Generation
The Atikokan power generation plant is undergoing a major retrofit to convert to biomass fuel after using its last piece of coal in September. Ontario Power Generation is converting Atikokan to a 100% biomass fueled power generator with the largest capacity in North America. On November 21, 2012, Ontario Power Generation awarded contracts for the [...]
Oregon Coal Fired Plant Goes Biomass
Aging, inefficient and expensive to upgrade, the Boardman Plant could have joined dozens of similar coal-fired generating stations consigned to the scrap heap of history as its owner prepared to permanently mothball its 600 megawatts in 2020. Instead, Portland General Electric is in the middle of a grand experiment to see if the plant in [...]
Ironbridge Power Station Plans Switch To Wood Pellet Fuel
Ironbridge Power Station, which generates up to 1,000MW of electricity, is planning to convert to use wood pellets as its main fuel. E.On has applied for permission to build a football pitch sized store on site for the pellets, which would be sourced principally from North America. Due to be decommissioned in 2015, it currently [...]
Dominion Virginia Power Receives State Approval For Biomass Plants
Dominion Virginia Power has received state approval to convert three coal-fired power plants to biomass fuel. The State Corporation Commission also approved a charge to Dominion customer bills starting April 1 to cover the estimated $165.8 million cost to switch over the plants in Altavista, Hopewell and Southampton County. In it’s filing for the conversion, [...]
World’s Largest Wood Pellet-Based Power Plant Set To Go Online
The world’s largest wood pellet-based biomass power plant, RWE npower’s Tilbury, England facility, will be fully commissioned and producing electricity by the end of January, according to company officials. The plant will generate nearly 750 MW of electricity using wood pellets produced at RWE’s Waycross, Ga. facility. The facility is currently running two of three [...]