Sustainable North

From the New York Times on Wednesday, October 1, 2008:

Making electricity from wood chips is trendy these days …

But here’s an interesting twist: many newly announced biomass plants will actually be running on old coal boilers. Xcel Energy, a big Midwestern utility, announced this week that it would spend up to $70 million to allow a coal boiler at a small power plant to run on gasified biomass (the plant’s two other boilers already run on biomass).

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