FirstEnergy power plant switching to biomass fuel

Ohio.com
By Bob DowningBeacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 11:00 a.m. EDT, Apr 01, 2009

Akron's FirstEnergy Corp. and Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland announced this morning that the utility's R.E. Burger Power Plant in Belmont County will continue to generate electricity but will switch largely to cleaner-burning renewable fuels.

The coal-fired power plant at Shadyside south of Wheeling on the Ohio River will become one of the largest biomass-burning facilities in the United States.

The conversion, expected to be completed in 2012, will cost an estimated $200 million, FirstEnergy said a press conference at the plant.

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