Power Industry Exceeding $4 Billion in New Development and Environmental Projects in New England

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). When oil and natural gas prices skyrocket, what is the alternative? Russell Biomass, LLC (Boston, Massachusetts) has proposed to construct a $150 million 50-megawatt biomass-fuelled power plant in Russell, Massachusetts. Like most modern biomass facilities, it will be configured to burn a wide array of wood waste, while controlling air pollution. The plant is scheduled for construction by next summer and will be built on the site of a closed paper mill plant, with a completion date sometime in 2009. Engineering services are being provided by Waldron Engineering & Construction, Incorporated (Hampton, New Hampshire).

Russell Biomass is one of 84 projects totaling more than $4 billion being developed in New England, which includes Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. These projects are currently in various stages of pre-construction activity from pre-planning to advanced engineering.

Click on the image at right to view a breakdown of these projects by state.

Also in Massachusetts, a $450 million flue gas desulfurization (FGD) scrubber project is scheduled at the largest power station in New England, Dominion Energy’s (NYSE:D )(Richmond, Virginia) Brayton Point Power Station (Somerset, Massachusetts).

Site preparation began this past winter on two 241-megawatt coal/gas Alstom tangential-fired dry bottom boilers. The two units will have dry scrubbers installed as well as tie-ins performed by the winter of 2007. The 643-megawatt Unit #3 will have a wet scrubber installed by 2010. Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania) has been selected to provide engineering and construction services.

Kicking off this fall is a $10 million boiler rebuild at Dominion’s 82-megawatt Unit #1 at the Salem Harbor Power Station (Salem, Massachusetts). The coal/oil unit includes a Babcock & Wilcox front-fired dry bottom boiler.

The Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Manchester, New Hampshire) will also be investing $200 million on a scrubber project at its coal-fired Merrimack Power Station (Bow, New Hampshire) to kick off in 2010.

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