Harmac pulp mill to build electrical generation plant
Jan 05, 2012. Nanaimo Forest Products, owner of the Harmac pulp mill in British Columbia, is building an electrical generation plant at the mill. The company reached a 15 year deal with B.C. Hydro to produce 25 megawatts of power at the mill. That is enough electricity to light up 17,000 homes.
Jan 05, 2012. /Lesprom Network/. Nanaimo Forest Products, owner of the Harmac pulp mill in British Columbia, is building an electrical generation plant at the mill. The company reached a 15 year deal with B.C. Hydro to produce 25 megawatts of power at the mill. That is enough electricity to light up 17,000 homes, as ForestTalk reported.
Wood biomass will be used to generate steam that will power the generator. The power generation plant is expected to cost $45 million and take 18 months to build.
Levi Sampson, president of Nanaimo Forest Products, said they plan to start construction of the new generation plant immediately. The company will cover all the costs of the project, and will use $27 million in federal funding they received under the federal Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program that was intended for projects that improve energy efficiency and environmental performance.
It is expected that 85 construction and technical jobs will be created during the construction.