Nacogdoches Power

The Nacogdoches Power project is a 100-MW wood-fired biomass power project near Sacul, Texas. It will consist of:

• a wood fuel handling system
• a bubbling fluidized bed boiler
• a condensing steam turbine generator with an evaporative cooling tower and
• auxiliary support equipment.

The project will employ the latest in boiler and emissions control technology to achieve best available emissions.

Nacogdoches Power has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement with Austin Energy, the municipal utility owned by and serving the City of Austin, Texas.

Nacogdoches Power has secured all necessary permits and owns the project site. Construction began in 2009 and the plant is anticipated to be commercially operable by late 2012. When completed, Nacogdoches Power will be one of the largest biomass-fueled electric generating facilities in the U.S.

Nacogdoches Power will be fueled by biomass materials, including:

• forest residue from the surrounding, heavily wooded areas of East Texas,
• wood processing residues and
• clean municipal wood waste.

The project will require approximately one million tons of fuel annually, which will be procured within a 75-mile radius of the project site. A comprehensive fuel study by an independent forestry consultant has confirmed that fuel resources within this radius are more than adequate to fuel the project during its operating lifetime.

American Renewables handled development and initial planning for the Nacogdoches Power project and sold it to Southern Power Company in 2009. Southern Power is a subsidiary of Southern Company. Southern Power is among the largest wholesale energy providers in the Southeast.