Fire Threat Turns Energy Asset As a response to

Fire Threat Turns Energy Asset

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As a response to increasing wildfire severity, hazardous forest fuels reduction activities are being advocated and pushed for more than ever, a mitigation method that not only helps reduce the spread of fires, but also poses numerous other benefits, including the potential production of renewable heat and power. Placer County, in northeastern California is getting close to realizing that benefit, as it is in the process of rolling out a 2-MW combined-heat-and-power plant at Lake Tahoe’s Cabin Creek, which will be fueled entirely by wood generated as a result of hazardous forest fuel removal.

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A study commissioned to determine how much fuel was available within a 30-mile radius of the proposed plant indicated over 100,000 bone-dry tons annually, roughly six times more than the facility would need. With such an abundance of fuel available, a much larger facility could be built, but the current transmission line could only handle up to 2.7 MW . “The cost and time it would take to go through the environmental process for the transmission line would make it unacceptable from an economic standpoint ,” Storey says.

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