Southern Power Will Build A Biomass Plant In Texas
A subsidiary of Southern Company, Southern Power will be building a biomass plant in eastern Texas. The company acquires, constructs, manages and owns wholesale generation assets and recently announced that it had acquired Nacogdoches Power LLC from American Renewables.
LLC will go forward with the plans to build the biomass plant in Sacul, Texas. Groundbreaking is expected to begin this fall and commercial operation is projected to begin in the summer of 2012. Once completed, the project will be one of the largest electric generating facilities in the U.S. that is biomass fueled generating around 100 MW.
The plant will sit on 165 acres and be fueled with biomass materials that includes wood processing residues, clean municipal wood waste and forest residue. The project will use around 1 million tons of fuel each year which is expected to be procured from a 75 mile radius. The output from the Texas plant is committed through a power purchase agreement with Austin Energy for twenty years.