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Big Biomass 101: When Burning Wood for Energy Makes Sense

Big Biomass 101: When Burning Wood for Energy Makes Sense

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney

The great boreal forest straddles the country and provinces from Nova Scotia to British Columbia have ample forestry resources. In a place like Canada biomass to energy can make a lot of sense. So we headed to the largest, closest biomass operation we could find — the Alberta Pacific Forest Industries (ALPAC) pulp mill.

It is North America’s largest single line kraft pulp mill and back in the 1990s these projects were the environmental flash point of their time. But out of that strife ALPAC got FSC certified for progressive forest management and in 2009 they installed a condensing steam turbine to make green electricity from waste wood.

The mill is located near the small town of Boyle, Alberta in northern Alberta. Aside from serving their own power needs with their waste they have a 32-megawatt power plant that contributes power to Alberta’s grid.

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