Connecticut power plant plans wood biomass integration

[Fledermaus]

Princeton, N.J.-based power generation company NRG Energy Inc. announced its intention to use woody biomass as a fuel source at its Montville Generating Station in Uncasville, Conn. The biomass-based energy would provide approximately 30 megawatts of the unit’s annual 82-megawatt electrical generating capacity.

NRG intends to use wood chips and other woody biomass to cogenerate electricity currently being produced with oil and natural gas. According to NRG spokeswoman Lourie Newman, the company expects to begin integrating biomass into the Uncasville facility in mid-2011.

This would be its fourth “Repowering NRG” project in Connecticut. The initiatives aim to integrate renewable and sustainable power sources at NRG’s 48 plants across the U.S. The company has a total generation capacity of approximately 24,000 megawatts.

http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2398

[NNadir]

1. GRRRRREAT!!!!! One can never have enough carcinogenic PAH's!!!!!!!!

This is a great day for lung surgeons.

Will the biomass include - let's hope - tobacco?

[Fledermaus]

2. How long are you going to keep recycling the same misinformation?