PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - An international group of energy developers says Maine’s archaic biomass power plants and paper mills would serve as excellent testing grounds for a new manufacturing economy based on sustainably harvested wood.
The Portland Press Herald reports (https://bit.ly/2kWxP7U ) the development group believes investors can transform these industrial relics into bioenergy parks to eventually replace products made from petroleum.
Bioenergy parks utilize all parts of a tree to create electricity, fuel, food and other useful materials.
Under the name Stored Solar J&WE, the development group purchased two wood-fired plants in West Enfield and Jonesboro. They brought the plants back online and restored jobs for 84 employees and roughly 200 loggers and truckers.
Maine is now being marketed in a unique way to investors to bring the first bioenergy park to the state.
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Information from: Portland Press Herald, https://www.pressherald.com
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