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Article: NRG Energy Experiments with Renewable Biomass Fuels in Louisiana.
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- Health & Beauty Close-Up
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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NRG Energy, Inc. said that it has begun a pilot project at the Company's Big Cajun II electrical generating station to evaluate local conditions for growing switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum as renewable biomass fuels.
In a release, the Company noted that these locally grown grasses will be further tested to determine their capacity to replace a portion of the coal at the plant and reduce its carbon intensity. The Big Cajun II project could lead to commercial-scale projects using biomass fuels to reduce carbon intensity from other coal plants.
Using improved seed varieties and growing techniques provided by Ceres, Inc., a developer and marketer of ...