{"id":24741,"date":"2015-03-05T02:02:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T01:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=24741"},"modified":"2015-03-03T16:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T15:28:25","slug":"largest-biomass-plant-in-the-u-s-to-power-pg-facility-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/largest-biomass-plant-in-the-u-s-to-power-pg-facility-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest biomass plant in the U.S. to power P&G facility in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 50 megawatt biomass plant, one of the largest in the United States, is being developed by Procter & Gamble and Constellation in Georgia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The plant, which will be built, owned and operated by Constellation, will supply steam to P&G\u2019s paper manufacturing facility in Albany, Georgia.<\/p>\n

The plant will use waste woody biomass such as discarded tree tops, limbs, branches and scrap wood from local forestry operations, crop residuals such as pecan shells and peanut hulls, and mill waste, such as sawdust.<\/p>\n

Construction on the plant has already begun and commercial operation is scheduled to begin in June of 2017.<\/p>\n

The Albany facility has been using biomass power from more than 30 years, converting woodscraps into steam with a smaller onsite biomass boiler. The onsite biomass boiler supplied around 30 percent of the facilities total energy.<\/p>\n

The new plant will replace the aging boiler system with a highly efficient combined heat and power biomass unit. Incoming biomass will provide 100 percent of the steam and up to 60 to 70 percent of the energy used in manufacturing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt P&G, we are committed to improving the environmental sustainability of our products across all aspects of their life cycle \u2013 from manufacturing, packaging, delivery and consumer use,\u201d said Martin Riant, P&G executive sponsor of Sustainability and Group President, Global Baby and Feminine & Family Care. \u201cAs this project enables us to operate one of our largest global plants with a renewable energy source, it will reduce the environmental footprint of two leading brands, Bounty and Charmin. We see this as a win for our business, consumers, partners and the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

P&G has set a renewable energy target of 30 percent of its total energy coming from renewable sources by 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cConstellation is uniquely positioned to help support Procter & Gamble\u2019s renewable energy goals because of our leadership in both retail energy supply and distributed generation,\u201d said Constellation Senior Vice President of Distributed Energy Gary Fromer. \u201cIncreasingly, our customers are looking for comprehensive energy options that enhance operational efficiencies and sustainability. Constellation can deliver innovative, clean energy solutions that drive value for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Constellation, which is a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, supplies power, natural gas and energy products and services for more than 2.5 million residential, public sector and business customers. The Albany Plant is the newest project in its distributed energy business, which has more than 300 MW of assets in operation or under development.<\/p>\n

Aside from producing power for P&G\u2019s facility, the plant will also be generating electricity for local utility Georgia Power. Constellation will sell 42 MW of capacity and energy from the facility to Georgia Power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 50 megawatt biomass plant, one of the largest in the United States, is being developed by Procter & Gamble and Constellation in Georgia. The plant, which will be built, owned and operated by Constellation, will supply steam to P&G\u2019s paper manufacturing facility in Albany, Georgia. The plant will use waste woody biomass such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[9367,600],"class_list":["post-24741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-constellation","supplier-procter-gamble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24741"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=24741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}