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 […]
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 […]
Horizon Wind Energy has been able to secure a long-term power purchase agreement with Snohomish County Public Utility District (Snohomish) to sell renewable wind energy from the Wheat Field Wind Farm. This is a great boost for the prospects of the wind farm which will have an installed capacity of 96.6 MW made up of […]
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 […]
The Goshen South Wind Farm, which is a proposed 450MW wind project in Idaho, generated by 150 wind turbines has now been approved for construction by the Bingham County commissioners.
The commissioners took into consideration the opposition put up by locals but the need to produce renewable energy won out in the end.
Peggy Stolworthy, a rancher […]
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 […]
