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 [...]
Greenleaf Acquires Power Plant from Marathon
Greenleaf Power, a newly formed owner/operator of biomass power plants, announces the purchase of a 28-megawatt biomass power plant located in Scotia, Calif. from Marathon Asset Management. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. In operation since 1988, the plant uses mill residuals and other available biomass to provide heat and power to the [...]
FirstEnergy Gains Biomass Approval
FirstEnergy Corp. has won a battle with environmentalists to burn wood and agricultural waste at an Ohio power plant and get state credit for it as “renewable.” In a quick and comment-free vote Wednesday, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a 12-page order sweeping aside arguments from environmentalists and a wind industry trade group [...]
We Energies, Domtar Plan Power Plant
We Energies and Domtar have announced a partnership that plans to build a $250 million biomass power generation plant at Domtar’s Rothschild, Wis. paper mill site. Wood, waste wood and sawdust will be used to produce 50 megawatts of electricity and will also support Domtar’s sustainable papermaking operations. The project will be funded by We [...]