Nacogdoches Biomass Power Plant is an 114MW biopower project. It is located in Texas, the US. According to GlobalData, who tracks and profiles over 170,000 power plants worldwide, the project is currently active. It has been developed in a single phase. The project construction commenced in 2009 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in June 2012. Buy the profile here.
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Description
The project was developed by American Renewables and is currently owned by Austin Energy with a stake of 100%.
The project generates 249,859MWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 70,000 households.
Agricultural by-product and wood by-product are used as a feedstock to power the project.
Development status
The project construction commenced in 2009 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in June 2012.
Power purchase agreement
The power generated from the project is sold to Austin Energy under a power purchase agreement for a period of 20 years, starting from 2012.
Contractors involved
Fagen was selected to render engineering procurement construction services for the biopower project.
Mitsubishi Power Americas was selected as the steam turbine supplier for the project. The company provided 1 unit of Axial Flow Condensing Turbine turbine with 114MW nameplate capacity.
Metso supplied steam boiler for the project.
NAES is the O&M contractor for the project.
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About American Renewables
American Renewables, LLC (American Renewables) is a clean energy company. The company develops, builds and operates clean energy facilities that utilize waste wood materials as fuel. It generates renewable electricity; supplies utilities with baseload green power; helps to improve the environment by reducing carbon emissions and other pollutants; assist in maintaining forest health and reducing waste sent to landfills ; and others. The company's projects include The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center, and Nacogdoches Power Project. It has partnership with Baycorp Holding, ltd, and Energy Management Inc to develop utility scale biomass projects. American Renewables is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the US.
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