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 Posted: Mon 15:02, 27 Dec 2010 Post subject: Biomass power plant energy representatives |
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The new subsidy provided a critical [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] to an industry that took off in the late 1970s after the federal government mandated that utilities obtain part of their supply from independent power producers. Many of these contracts have now expired,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], leaving the industry struggling to compete in light of low natural gas prices and higher wood costs.
The future of the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] will eventually include a subsidy to get farmers to grow crops such as switchgrass and an array of trees and shrubs -- could be determined by the Office of Management and Budget, which has been reviewing the federal rule for the program since September. In the meantime, federal money has started to flow: The administration sent $23 million to the state offices of the Farm Service Agency in the fall, and is poised to distribute another $514 million.
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] energy representatives, such as the Biomass Power Association president, Bob Cleaves, said those subsidies are critical to support a sector that currently supplies half of the nation's renewable energy (the other half coming from wind, solar and other sources). Seven of Maine's 10 biomass energy plants would have shut down without the new influx of funds,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he said.
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