How will The Northern Wood Power Project benefit the environment?
The Northern Wood Power Project replaces coal with an equivalent power-generating supply of clean-burning wood. This eliminates the need for importing, storing and burning more than 130,000 tons of coal annually. PSNH’s new wood-combustion technology is so efficient, emissions will be reduced by thousands of tons each year. Burning wood chips reduces oxides of nitrogen (NOx) by about 70 percent, mercury 90 percent, and sulfur dioxide (SO2) 95 percent. Whole-tree wood chips and other biomass materials are considered “carbon neutral,” meaning no additional net carbon is released into the atmosphere from burning wood.
