Procter & Gamble and Constellation Collaborate for Biomass Plant
February 18, 2015http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2015/02/16/procter-gamble-and-constellation-team-up-for-50-mw-biomass-plant/
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Procter & Gamble and Constellation have announced their collaboration in developing a 50 MW biomass plant to help run one of P&G's largest US facilities. The plant will help move the company towards its goal of getting 30 percent of its total energy from renewable sources.
Constellation will build, own and operate the $200 million plant, which will supply steam to P&G's paper manufacturing facility in Georgia and generate electricity for the local utility, Georgia Power. Construction has already begun on site. The plant is scheduled to begin commercial operation in June 2017. Construction is expected to create up to 500 new jobs over the next two years.
The plant's fuel supply will come from biomass including discarded tree tops, limbs, branches and scrap wood from local forestry operations, crop residuals, such as pecan shells and peanut hulls, and mill waste, such as sawdust.
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