ORNL chooses biomass to power its campuses

Read the full post at Biopact.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of America’s most important national science labs, has signed an $89 million energy savings performance contract with Johnson Controls, Inc. to apply advanced energy conservation solutions and to build a biomass gasification system with a ‘super boiler’ to power its campuses. Being the most competitive and reliable of all renewable energy systems, the biomass power plant will reduce the lab’s fossil fuel requirements by 80% and, in combination with conservation efforts, push down energy costs dramatically.

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Laura L. Barnes is a librarian at the Prairie Research Institute Library, embedded at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, and writes for Environmental News Bits.
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