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Article: Company bids for biomass contract Plan aims to restart Millinocket mill
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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MILLINOCKET - Brookfield Renewable Power has bid to supply
electricity to the state's utilities from a biomass boiler it hopes
to install at its local paper mill, a next step among several needed
to restart the mill, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Brookfield submitted the bid for a 20-year contract to the Maine
Public Utilities Commission last week and hopes to have negotiations
concluded within two months, said Julie Smith-Galvin, the company's
spokeswoman.
A signed contract to supply electricity to Bangor Hydro-Electric
Co. and Central Maine Power Co. would not guarantee a mill
reopening, nor set a timeline for its restart, but it would make
finding a partner to run the biomass ...