What types of wood will PRE use as biomass fuel?
We will use wood from a wide variety of sources including land clearing, pallets, brush, bark, tree trimming and the clean wood component from C&D debris. PRE will primarily source fuel from inside Connecticut (within a 25 to 100 mile radius of the facility), since fuel cost is very sensitive to transportation. The CT DPUC has required that the majority of PRE’s biomass fuel be wood derived from construction and demolition debris. The US EPA and all states (including Connecticut) regulate C&D as non-hazardous waste and the CT DPUC believes that PRE’s use of wood from C&D sources will promote the use of biomass as a renewable resource for Connecticut. The PRE facility will only accept a clean biomass stream that has been carefully prepared from sorted components of C&D, and which complies with Connecticut law including removal of many items, such as asbestos, creosote, pesticides, and hazardous waste (§22a-208x and §22a-209a.). PRE has strict fuel monitoring protocols for fuel delivered
