More of our wood going overseas. Biggest wood pellet plant in the USA to export to Europe.

This sounds like a good long range plan on the surface. Big
production plant means long term jobs as long as the supply
of trees holds out. There are problems with co-firing wood with
coal. We have an abundance of coal, natural gas available to us
here at home in the United States. We should be using it all for
our own benefit, along with all our other natural resources. Drilling
for the oil we have is imperative to our energy independence. That
is not going to happen with the Obama administration and the happy
tree huggers, earth muffins of the rabid environmental movement that
has our country's resources tangled up in a legal nightmare of
lawsuits and ridiculous laws.


I think it time we exported the environmentalists and green energy
nuts to China and see how that government tolerates their antics
and actions. One only has to look to Europe to see where alternative,
green energy plans have failed to produce the results promised. In
some countries they even had to build new CONVENTIONAL power
plants that burn fossil fuels to ensure an adequate supply of energy.
Denmark is a perfect example.


RWE to Build World's Biggest Wood Pellet Plant in US, Plans to Export Output to Europe for Co-Firing



A giant German utility is going to produce huge amounts of "carbon neutral" wood pellets in one of America's southern states for the express purpose of shipping the pellets to Europe in order to co-fire with coal to produce electricity with reduced carbon emissions. Click here for the story.


RWE's Georgia plant will cost a whopping $170 million and use up about 1.5 million metric tons of wood per year to produce 750,000 metric tons of pellets.

The project is one of several planned by RWE, which is compelled by the EU to cut annual carbon emissions by 20% by 2020--meaning, a reduction of eight million metric tons a year from a total of 40 million metric tons a year.

RWE is moving aggressively to control what an important company executive calls the wood "value chain" in North America, which is one of the planet's most important sources of sustainable--and economically accessible--wood supplies. Given the illegal logging that plagues Asia, Africa, and South America, and threatens the Siberian forest--the world's largest--with extinction over the next 20 years, North American wood will become an increasingly sought-after commodity.


Elsewhere in the United States, plans to convert a coal-fired power plant to one that will use wood biomass and natural gas are moving ahead, as reported here.
 
Hat tip: China Confidential

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