The 50-MW Joseph C. McNeil Generating Station in Burlington, Vermont is almost exclusively wood fired. Most biomass power plants operating today have low boiler and thermal-plant efficiencies, a result of both the fuel's characteristics and the small size of most facilities. As electricity restructuring proceeds, traditional concepts of how energy is produced, transported, and utilized are likely to change dramatically. Marketplace, policy, and regulatory changes will shape both the domestic and global energy industry, improving opportunities for clean, low-energy, competitively priced fuels, and environmentally responsible power systems. Many of these benefits may be obtained by commercial deployment of advanced biomass power conversion technologies.
Biomass energy can satisfy the renewable portfolio standards being suggested by many states.
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