| Pepco to build DC biomass plant A D. Water's Blue Plains Advance Wastewater Treatment plant. Pepco will build the project for $81 million, and be paid $89 million over 15 years for on-site operations and maintenance. "This project is a major step forward in the way D. It will produce enough electricity to power about 30 percent of the facility's electrical needs. "By recycling biogas, we will be able to create electricity and steam to assist power then Blue Plains advanced wastewater treatment plant. Water handles its solid wastes," said Pepco Energy Services CEO John Huffman. The Blue Plains advanced wastewater treatment plant is the largest in the world, handling 370 million gallons of sewage a day from the region, and serves about 725 square miles of D. " Construction starts in August and is expected to be complete by late-2014. , will be the first in North America to use biomass from its own wastewater treatment plant. Pepco Energy Services has been hired to build and maintain a combined heat-and-power plant at D. Blue Plains, located in Southwest D. , Maryland and Virginia. |
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Pepco to build DC biomass plant
