http://granitegeek.disqus.com/enMon, 28 Dec 2009 02:22:58 -0000http://granitegeek.org/blog/2009/12/24/some-folks-in-berlin-oppose-wood-burning-power-plant/#comment-27363205<p>There is a little confusion here. There are two biomass plants looking to open in Berlin, the 70 MW Laidlaw Energy plant and a smaller 29 MW Clean Power Development Plant. The above comments are about the smaller plant. Supporters of each plant have been trying to block the other because the grid will only support one or the other but not both if the Noble Wind Farm comes online first. Clean Power wants to use the effluent from the Berlin Waste Water Plant in their cooling towers to help the town and have partnered with a seacoast company trying to pioneer the use of algae as a potential biomass fuel. At 29 MW CPD fall is too small to have to submit an application to EFSEC and is well ahead of Laidlaw in the permiting process. Laidlaw supporters are trying to force CPD into the EFEC process in order to give the advantage to Laidlaw. The battle has been going on for awhile. The new city administration coming into power next month supports Laidlaw while the outgoing administration supported CPD. PSNH supports Laidlaw and CPD has a complaint before the PUC that PSNH is playing favorites.</p>HerbMon, 28 Dec 2009 02:22:58 -0000