BC Hydro is adding enough renewable electricity to power 70,000 homes annually thanks to four new bioenergy projects located in Chetwynd, Fraser Lake, Fort St. James and Merritt.
The four clean-energy projects will produce electricity using sawmill and manufacturing debris, roadside debris, logging slash, sort-yard debris and biomass derived from standing timber, including pine-beetle-damaged trees.
The projects were selected under the second phase of the Bioenergy Call for Power, a program designed to facilitate the acquisition of clean, renewable and cost-effective energy. The four new projects will require capital spending of more than $300 million and create many local jobs, according to Hydro.
from Western Investor September 2011
