Turbine Delivery for Burgess BioPower's Biomass Plant in New Hampshire Hits Snag

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The 132-ton turbine that left Searsport, Maine in route to the Burgess BioPower biomass-to-energy project in Berlin, New Hampshire hit a snag literally yesterday when the giant turbine and 74-wheel, 175-foot transporter crept along route 16 encountering some overhead wiring. The snag shut down the highway as the top of the turbine did not clear the obstacle.

Burgess BioPower, a subsidiary of Cate Street Capital (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), is a biomass power plant has been under construction since October of 2011, and after over a year of construction activity, the project is ready for the largest and most important component to be installed. The turbine started its journey in Fuji, Japan to Texas then onto Searsport, Maine.

The 75-megawatt Mitsubishi turbine will receive steam from an existing Babcock & Wilcox boiler is being converted to a bubbling fluidized bed boiler that will be fired by 750,000 tons per year of low-grade wood chips and logging waste to produce renewable of the former pulp mill site.

The estimated $275 million plant is expected to be fully operational by October 2013 and is being built by the team of Babcock & Wilcox Construction (Downers Grove, Illinois) and Waldron Engineering & Construction (Exeter, New Hampshire).

When completed, the plant will generate 40 new permanent jobs and support some 375 to 400 people during construction. The asset also will contribute upward of $25 million in tax revenue for the area.

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