The power plant in Vanderhoof, will provide clean, carbon-neutral power to the company’s Premium Pellet plant operation.
The biomass-based Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) unit, built by Turboden, installed by the company for the facility.
Nechako Green Energy president Alan Fitzpatrick said the ORC unit will allow the company to become more energy and cost efficient.
The Turboden ORC unit includes a special evaporator/preheater and turbine and will operate at 280 degrees Celsius, providing the pellet plant with 2MW of renewable electrical power at max load.
The plant produces 140,000 tonnes of premium-grade wood pellets annually, and the ORC unit uses thermal oil from an existing biomass system to burn the mill’s residual hog fuel and waste bark.
