Gainesville Project Joins Wood Resource Under Biomass Supply Contract

GREC (Gainsville Renewable Energy Center) has entered into a contract with the firm Wood Resource Recovery towards a biomass supply contract in the long term. Wood Resource is a local recycler of wood waste and supplies almost half the required biomass fuel that is needed for this proposed 100 MW biomass plant.

All the fuel that Wood Resource supplies will be coming from clean and urban wood waste that includes biomass materials such as tree trimmings and clean, woody debris obtained from land clearing contractors. Urban wood waste is considered as a biomass fuel with advantages by GREC since it does not contain construction or demolition debris or any other form of treated wood while it is also significantly drier when compared to other biomass materials while increasing the facility’s efficiency.

The GREC project provides waste disposal solutions while simultaneously generating renewable electricity towards powering 70,000 homes approximately under the Gainesville region. American Renewables will be building, owning as well as operating this GREC facility while selling off all the electricity as well as environmental attributes accruing from this facility for Gainesville Regional Utilities.