Agriculture takes hard look at biomass opportunities

Nanticoke station must quit coal by 2014, leaving a gap farm organizations would love to fill

by SUSAN MANN

When Ontario’s government closed the door on the Nanticoke Generating Station’s use of coal it may have opened a window of opportunity for farmers.
And farmers along with their organizations have dived head first into efforts to figure out if biomass would work as a fuel source for the Nanticoke station, the largest coal-fired power plant in North America. It delivers up to 2,760 megawatts of power to the southern Ontario power grid.

Located on the north shore of Lake Erie in Haldimand County, the Nanticoke station must, according to an Environmental Protection Act regulation, stop using coal by 2014.

Better Farming - January 2012