Dominion Virginia Power asked Virginia regulators for approval to convert three 63 MW coal-fired power stations to biomass at a cost of $165 million.
The Santee Cooper Board of Directors approved contracts with W2E-Organic Power and BioEnergy Technologies for 3.2 MW of electricity generated from anaerobic digestion of renewable resources.
Florida's Public Service Commission has approved a 20-year power purchase agreement for Progress Energy Florida to buy the electricity output from a planned 40 MW biomass plant in Florida.
Ameresco Inc. and City of Dallas Water Utilities (DWU) completed a 4.3 MW biogas energy recovery facility.
Dominion Virginia Power plans to convert three power stations from coal to biomass, reducing capacity from 180 MW to 150 MW but increasing availability.
Adage, the joint venture of Duke Energy and Areva, has canceled plans for a $250 million, 55 MW biomass plant in Washington state and has suspended plans for any new construction.
A unit of Babcock & Wilcox won a $35 million contract to supply equipment for a 36 MW waste-to-energy, combined heat and power plant in Finland.
GE Oil & Gas is supplying a steam turbine generator for a 20 MW cogeneration plant in Port Angeles, Wash., that will be powered by residue from local timber operations.
Dominion Virginia Power could reopen its Altavista Power Station as a biomass electricity plant
Hawaiian Electric Co. used 100 percent renewable biofuel to fire a 90 MW petroleum oil-fired steam turbine generator.
Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by Ingeteam Power Plants to design, supply and erect a bubbling fluidized-bed (BFB) steam generator and the associated auxiliary equipment for Biomasa de Cantabria of Spain.
Wisconsin Power and Light Co. will expand biomass test burns in 2011, burning larger quantities of biomass for longer durations at the Nelson Dewey Generating Station.
Xcel Energy has canceled its plans to build a biomass power plant on Lake Superior in Ashland, Wisc., Wisc
German utility RWE has submitted a plan to convert its large-scale coal fired power plant at Tilbury, UK to use 100 per cent biomass.
