Despite Hurdles, UW Converting Coal Plant to Biomass

EnvironmentalLeader.com
January 20, 2010

Proponents of a $250 million project to convert a coal-fired power plant to biomass at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say the project is moving ahead, damn the torpedoes.

Those torpedoes include the fact that the project represents nearly a fifth of the state’s capital budget from 2009-11, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal.

Other factors going against the plant are that upfront construction costs are higher than other alternatives, and that there is not an existing infrastructure nearby to process the biomass.

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