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Article: United States: Wood-Fueled Power Makes Gain We Energies Plans to Spend $500 Million on Two Facilities.
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- November 4, 2009
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Byline: prashant03
Plans to develop power plants using wood waste as fuel are advancing in Wisconsin.
Xcel Energy Corp. has won state approval for a project that would replace a coal-fired boiler in Ashland on Lake Superior with a biomass gasifier power plant.
Meanwhile, Milwaukee-based We Energies is planning to build two biomass-fueled power plants by 2013, at a cost of $500 million.
Biomass power plants rely on wood chips, sawdust and other waste wood left on the forest floor after areas are logged for timber.
Xcel's project, slated to cost $58.1 million, consists of converting one of three boilers at its Bay Front power ...