Green Energy Partners Gets Green Light from Georgia State EPA, Now Biomass Project Needs 'Green'

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Georgia Environmental Protection Division gave alternative energy producer Green Energy Partners LLC (Landrum, South Carolina) a green light by issuing an air permit to further develop a biomass energy project planned for DeKalb County, Georgia, near Lithonia.

With this approval, all the project needs is the financing to build the plant. Green Energy Partners is hoping to wrap up financing for the estimated $60 million project within months and is optimistic that construction can begin this calendar year.

Plans call for the development of a 21-acre site with an 11.5-megawatt biomass power plant. The facility will burn 240 tons per day waste material, which will be provided by DeKalb County, to produce synthetic gas to fire boilers. The process will produce steam to drive a steam turbine generator, which will provide renewable energy to the local power grid. The boilers will be manufactured by Hurst Boilers (Coolidge, Georgia).

Green Energy has lined up AECOM (NYSE:ACM) (New York, New York) as the engineering and construction firm and W.G. Yates Construction (Atlanta, Georgia) to act as the general contractor when financing is complete. Design engineering is being provided by Global Energy Solution Incorporated (Naperville, Illinois).

If construction starts in late fall of this year as planned, the plant could be fully operational within 16 to 18 months from the initial construction kickoff.

Biomass has become a big market in Georgia due to the abundance of excess wood and waste wood material. Additional biomass energy projects are being developed by Green Power Solutions, Greenway Renewable Power and North Star Renewable Power. The projects represent more than $425 million in capital spending and 141 megawatts of renewable energy.

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