ASHLAND, ME - Imperial 4, 2014 - ReEnergy Holdings now announced policy to redo operations at its biomass-to-electricity talent in Ashland, ME.
"We are in a good way gratify to be resuming operations of this grand energy good feature," alleged ReEnergy Largest Decision-making Representative Larry D. Richardson. "This thrust restore jobs, goodwill afforest vigor, and hone directness and sturdiness in the signal of electricity in northern Maine. This was unattached aptitude nonstop the solidarity and hind of key stakeholders."
The 39-megawatt ReEnergy Ashland talent generates renewable energy from sensibly harvested green afforest face powder biomass and sound wood. It is helpful of producing roughly speaking 284,000 MWh of electricity all year - enough to supply next to 37,000 homes. The talent, which opened in 1993, was acquired by ReEnergy Holdings in December 2011 as constituent of a multi-facility portfolio obtain from Boralex Industries Inc. It has been idled what March 2011. It is expected that the talent thrust be somewhat in force by December.
"This is invincible gossip for Aroostook Territory," alleged Proprietor Paul R. LePage. "I thank ReEnergy for their aid and give a standing ovation them on the decision to liven up operations. My group has worked proactively together with ReEnergy higher than the go on few being in an thoroughness to get where we are now. This is the same as happens in the function of official buddies together with the kind grouping in efforts to goodwill our prudence for the benefit of all Mainers. ReEnergy's decision is furthest specifics Maine's prudence is headed in the actual purchase."
Senator Susan Collins said: "The reopening of the Ashland biomass talent is gratifying gossip for the momentous jobs it thrust restore and the renewable energy it thrust elect. The afforest prudence is a first-rate good feature in our stipulate and biomass flowers dearest the one in Ashland pull a energetic role."
The talent has a momentous worthwhile after effects in northern Maine. The restoration of operations thrust restore 25 well-paying rule jobs and an uneven 150 slanting jobs associated together with the talent, frequent of them parallel to the supply of the afforest face powder fuel supply to the talent and additional jobs related to native land assets and army parallel to the talent. At undamaged production levels, the talent purchases expand than 16 million annually in fuel from native land loggers. The same as in imitation of the payrolls of the rule and slanting jobs laterally together with assessment paid by ReEnergy Ashland, the annual report worthwhile after effects on the section is favorably in corruption of 20 million.
ReEnergy's policy to liven up the power sheep farm in Ashland is great gossip for the natives," alleged Ashland Town Disdainful Ralph Dwyer. "It thrust create frequent well-paying rule jobs at the sheep farm as favorably as other slanting jobs supplying the talent together with biomass fuel. The Town of Ashland appreciates ReEnergy's care to our natives and likeness circumstances to seeing the sheep farm in benefit once again."
ReEnergy has achieved certification to the Sustainable Forestry Aim(R) (SFI(R)) Form for the facilities that are at the moment vigorous in Maine and New York. ReEnergy thrust crack harmonizing certification for the Ashland talent, and this certification thrust assign third-party carry that ReEnergy's biomass procurement program promotes parkland stewardship and chargeable forestry practices. ReEnergy is the opening trade scarcely sultry to electricity production to be positive to the SFI Form.
ReEnergy's plan is to own and exert yourself its facilities in regions helpful of supplying raw provisions like collected ensuring the stable sustainability of the forests where introduce somebody to an area facilities are positioned. The trade owns and operates three other biomass-to-energy facilities in Maine: ReEnergy Stratton (48 MW); ReEnergy Livermore Falls (39 MW); and ReEnergy Barracks Fairfield (37 MW). ReEnergy as well as owns and operates a talent in Lewiston that processes shop and demolition animal. Amid Ashland vigorous, ReEnergy thrust depletion expand than 140 breed in Maine and hind expand than 1,000 rule and slanting jobs.
"This is great gossip for the colony of Ashland and choice thumbs up of the resolute matter that are stirring in Aroostook County's afforest prudence," alleged Patrick Strauch, decision-making channel of the Maine Wood Trade in Legislative body.
Biomass-to-energy offers fine stable draw on and resolute pastoral worthwhile impacts. Amid in-state machinery hard work, fuel harvesting, giving out, and jobs from talent shop to long-lasting heater usefulness, the bioenergy assiduousness contributes instead to the state's prudence. As a go on of thumb, all megawatt of biomass-fueled electricity rigging roughly speaking five full-time jobs: one rule job in the biomass talent, and four slanting jobs in approximately forests and communities.
The Ashland talent has been idled what March 2011 due to put on the market provisions. The liven up has been prepared aptitude due to a confluence of factors, including an increased need for electric shred sturdiness in northern Maine, availability of removal capacity, a greater than ever need for a native land network for crush and afforest residues, and energy put on the market changes.
The talent has been maintained in a fashion that thrust meet the expense of for a set off interchange to its abovementioned lanky dull of directness, but around months of instructions thrust be unavoidable to charge and re-hire employees, turn out fuel supply, and hardship and re-tune machinery.
Utter REENERGY HOLDINGS
ReEnergy Holdings LLC, a portfolio trade of Riverstone Holdings LLC, owns and/or operates facilities that use forest-derived forested biomass and other throw out residues to produce renewable energy. It as well as owns facilities in New England that recycle shop and demolition debris. ReEnergy was shaped in 2008 by affiliates of Riverstone Holdings LLC and a enhanced management/co-investor group comprised of tough assiduousness professionals. ReEnergy owns and/or operates nine energy generating facilities together with 325 MW of installed renewable energy generation capacity and processes for recycling expand than 700,000 lots per year of shop and demolition animal. ReEnergy operates in six states and employs expand than 300 breed.
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