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Steam Plant Blown Out for Biomass
US - An $88.1 million plan to replace its steam plant with one fueled by wood chips and launch a comprehensive program of energy efficiency improvements puts Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the forefront of a greening trend moving across all business sectors.That's according to the company that's helping get the job done, reports Knoxville News.
Iain Campbell, vice president at Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee, Wis.-based firm that is managing and financing the initiative, along with other company and ORNL officials, stood in front of the lab's antiquated steam plant Monday to tout the project that was announced by the Department of Energy last week. That's according to the company that's helping get the job done.
It is the largest of four such efforts being rolled out at national laboratories across the country. DOE has mandated a reduction of energy consumption by 30 percent and water consumption by 16 percent at its facilities by the end of fiscal year 2009.
At ORNL, the new system and other improvements are expected to reduce energy consumption by 50 percent and water usage by 23 percent. The system will reduce fossil fuel consumption by more than 80 percent. That's the equivalent of pulling 2.1 million cars off the road every year - or planting 32 million trees, according to figures provided by ORNL.
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