Nacogdoches Power

The project 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 the 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 on the Project will begin in the fall of 2009, and the Project is anticipated to be commercially operable by late 2012. When completed, the Project will be one of the largest biomass-fueled electric generating facilities in the U.S.

The Project 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.