Biomass conversion planned for idled coal plant
PORT OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA - The California Public Utilities Commission approved a contract for DTE Energy to install a 45 MW biomass facility at an idled coal-fired power plant.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. PG&E would then purchase the power from DTE Energy.
DTE, the parent company of Detroit Edison, said it plans to purchase the plant, the Port of Stockton District Energy Facility from a unit of FPL Group Inc.
The plant would be connected to the PG&E power grid and existing cooling towers.
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CHARLOTTETOWN - A proposal to expand an existing wind farm in eastern P.E.I. has been given the go-ahead, according to P.E.I.’s Department of Environment, Water and Climate Change.
Minister Natalie Jameson approved the P.E.I. Energy Corporation’s Eastern Kings Wind Farm expansion project, the province announced in a release Wednesday afternoon.
The project will be subject to 17 conditions, which were drawn from a review of the 80 responses the province received from the public on the proposed Eastern Kings Wind Farm expansion.
The corporation must provide a summary on the status of each condition to the department on a monthly basis.
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