Covanta SEMASS Biomass Power Plant is an 80MW biopower project. It is located in Massachusetts, the US. According to GlobalData, who tracks and profiles over 170,000 power plants worldwide, the project is currently active. It has been developed in multiple phases. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in February 1989. Buy the profile here.
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Description
The project was developed by Bechtel Power and is currently owned by Covanta Energy Group.
The project generates 780GWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 75,000 households.
The process of combustion has been adopted in this project to release the stored energy from the feed. Refuse which is a kind of municipal solid waste is used as a feedstock to power the project.
Development status
The project got commissioned in February 1989.
Contractors involved
GE Power was selected as the steam turbine supplier for the project. The company provided 1 turbine with 30MW nameplate capacity.
GE Power was selected as the steam turbine supplier for the project. The company provided 1 turbine with 54MW nameplate capacity.
Riley Power supplied steam boiler for the project. The temperature witnessed inside the boiler is around 750Degree Fahrenheit.
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About Bechtel Power
Bechtel Power Corp (Bechtel Power), a part of Bechtel Corp, is a provider of integrated engineering, procurement and construction services. It designs, procures and constructs the power-generation, environmental services, communications, retrofit projects, power transmission lines, substations and distribution facilities. The company builds a varied range of power plants that generate electricity using thermal, nuclear, and renewable power sources such as integrated gasification combined-cycle, hydro, solar, biomass and waste-to-energy. Bechtel Power also carries out plant completion or recovery and modifications to existing facilities. It has operations in the US and other countries. Bechtel Power is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the US.
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