Europe’s big polluter gets greener
The fifth largest utility company in Europe, and the continent’s biggest polluter, is planning to build a biomass facility in the US.
Germany-based RWE’s facility will produce wood pellets for burning in the Amercentrale plant owned by its Dutch unit Essent.
The coal-burning power company will build a plant in the southern state of Georgia for €120 million to produce 750,000 tonnes of the wood pellets a year, which it will then ship to the Netherlands.
The facility in Georgia is one of the first to make wooden pellets in the US for shipping to Europe. There is another facility in the south of the country and several smaller ones in Canada.
The pellets produced are enough to fire a power plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts. That compares with an overall capacity at the Amercentrale plant of 1,245 megawatts.
Germany-based RWE’s facility will produce wood pellets for burning in the Amercentrale plant owned by its Dutch unit Essent.
The coal-burning power company will build a plant in the southern state of Georgia for €120 million to produce 750,000 tonnes of the wood pellets a year, which it will then ship to the Netherlands.
The facility in Georgia is one of the first to make wooden pellets in the US for shipping to Europe. There is another facility in the south of the country and several smaller ones in Canada.
The pellets produced are enough to fire a power plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts. That compares with an overall capacity at the Amercentrale plant of 1,245 megawatts.
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