Category Archives: Biomass

Newfoundland and Labrador‘s Minister of Natural Resources, Jerome Kennedy, is confirming that a company is interested in purchasing the old AbitibiBowater mill in Grand Falls-Windsor.

Kennedy would not specify who the company was, or where they were from, but he did say that the company is interested in acquiring part of the property to produce wood pellets for home heating.

The Grand Falls-Windsor mill has been closed for 3 years. The province assumed custody and management of the mill after expropriating the timber and water assets from AbitibiBowater.

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Fibrek has concluded an agreement for the sale of green energy produced at its cogeneration facilities located at the Saint-Félicien mill in connection with Hydro-Québec Distribution’s Power Purchase Program for electricity derived from forest biomass cogeneration (PAE 2011-01), which was launched on December 20, 2011.

The 33.23 MW of green energy currently produced by Fibrek will be sold to Hydro-Québec Distribution beginning on May 5, 2012 at a price of $106 per megawatt per hour, indexed to the consumer price index (CPI) for a 25-year period. The contract will generate approximately $16 million a year in EBITDA.

“This production will further increase the previously announced 9.56 MW that Fibrek will be supplying to the government corporation starting in December 2012. By the end of this year, the Saint-Félicien mill will be producing 42.79 MW in green energy for Hydro-Québec Distribution,” said Fibrek’s CEO Pierre Gabriel Côté.

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Domtar‘s mill in Dryden, Ontario will be home to a new research project that will test the conversion of wood waste into a bio-oil.

The project is a being initiated by Domtar and Battelle. Battelle is the world’s largest, independent research and development organization. The total project value will be up to $14 million.

The Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) is providing up to $6 million for the project.

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Bowater Mersey is planning to install equipment to improve the heat recovery from the steam generated at the mill.

By recovering this heat, Bowater Mersey would be able to generate 3.3 megawatts of electricity.

This power could be sold to Nova Scotia Power.

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Nanaimo Forest Products, owner of the Harmac pulp mill in British Columbia, is building an electrical generation plant at the mill.

The company reached a 15 year deal with B.C. Hydro to produce 25 megawatts of power at the mill. That is enough electricity to light up 17,000 homes.

Wood biomass will be used to generate steam that will power the generator. The power generation plant is expected to cost $45 million and take 18 months to build.

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West Fraser Timber Company is considering building identical, biomass-powered generation plants at two of its subsidiaries in British Columbia.

The plants are being planned in response to BC Hydro’s “Bioenergy Call to Power” program to acquire and provide cost-effective, clean, renewable energy.

Source: Industrial Info Resources

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Conifex Timber Inc. has announced that it has entered into an agreement modifying certain terms of its Electricity Purchase Agreement with BC Hydro from its bioenergy operation in Mackenzie, British Columbia.

The Electricity Purchase Agreement specified a period of 150 days from the date that the agreement was entered into within which acceptance for filing by the British Columbia Utilities Commission was required.

The Amendment Agreement extends this Acceptance Period by 90 days.

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The Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) plans to construct a $150 million biomass power plant in northern Saskatchewan.

The power plant will run on bark, branches, sawdust, wood chips and other leftovers from the NorSask Forest Products mill. It will generate up to 36 megawatts of renewable, low-emissions power (enough to power 30,000 homes).

The generated power will be sold to SaskPower under a 25 year agreement.

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Remember the plan to burn wood in Port Hawkesbury to create power for Nova Scotia Power?

You may have been thinking that plan was dead now that the NewPage mill is being idled, but you may be wrong.

Nova Scotia Power included a clause in the original agreement specifying that if NewPage goes out of business, the province has agreed to give Nova Scotia Power access to the wood needed for the plant.

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A new school being constructed in Fredericton, New Brunswick will be the first in the province to be heated with wood pellets.

The school will be equipped with a wood pellet fired hot water boiler.

The hot water boiler plant will use wood pellets as the base fuel while automatic controls will engage natural gas boilers to provide extra heat during extreme weather conditions. The 500 kw boiler will use about 300 tonnes of pellets annually.

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