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Biomass| Bay Front Power Plant Upgrade Proposal

The Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland Wisconsin is about to undergo a $70 million overhaul courtesy of financing by Xcel Energy. The power plant has already been retrofitted so that two of its three boilers can burn multiple fuels for power. The proposal by Xcel is to convert the third coal-fired boiler to burn […]

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Biomass | Lufkin Power Plant

Work has started on the construction of the first biomass power plant in the state of Texas. The groundbreaking ceremony for the start of the project has just taken place hosted by Aspen Power in Lufkin, Texas.
The Lufkin Biomass Power Plant will have a maximum capacity to produce 50MW of renewable energy sourced electricity. The […]

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Biomass | Portbury Dock Renewable Energy Plant

New plans have been announced by energy giant E.ON to invest around £300 million in a new biomass power plant 12km from Bristol.
The biomass power plant will be called the Portbury Dock Renewable Energy Plant and is expected to have a maximum capacity to produce 150MW which would be enough electricity to power 200,000 homes. […]

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Biomass | Approval for Nacogdoches Power Project

There has been an update on the Nacogdoches Biomass Power Plant that was proposed for Sacul in northern Nacogdoches County. The approval was being considered in Austin, Texas with the news that the city of Austin has unanimously agreed to buy power from the facility.
What this means is that Tony Callendrello, the project’s leader, can […]

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Biomass | Fairmont Energy Centre

European energy services company Veolia Energy are investing $120 million in a biomass power plant in Fairmont, Minnesota. Called the Fairmont Energy Centre, it would be powered by biomass known as resource-derived fuel (RDF) which is actually processed trash like papers and plastics that have been dried, condensed and shipped into Fairmont. Supplementing this will […]

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Biomass | Berlin Project

Plans are underway to construct a new biomass-energy facility on the site of the former Fraser Paper Mill located in Berlin, New Hampshire. It is hoped that this biomass power plant will be one of the largest and most environmentally sound facilities in the United States.
The project is being headed by alternative energy power plant […]

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