Altavista Biomass Power Plant is a 51MW biopower project. It is located in Virginia, the US. The project is currently active. It has been developed in single phase. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in July 2013.

Project Type Total Capacity (MW) Active Capacity (MW) Pipeline Capacity (MW) Project Status Project Location Project Developer
Biopower 51 51 Active Virginia, the US Virginia Electric and Power

Description

The project is developed and owned by Virginia Electric and Power.

The project supplies enough clean energy to power 12,500 households. The project cost is $153.389m.

The process of combustion has been adopted in this project to release the stored energy from the feed. Wood waste which is a kind of wood by-product is used as a feedstock to power the project.

Development Status

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The project got commissioned in July 2013.

About Virginia Electric and Power

Virginia Electric and Power Co (Virginia Power), subsidiary of Dominion Energy Inc, is an energy utility that generates, transmits, and distributes electricity. It generates electricity from gas, nuclear, oil, coal, renewable, and biomass sources. It also procures power through long term agreements. Virginia Power conducts business under the names Dominion Energy Virginia and Dominion Energy North Carolina in Virginia and North Carolina, respectively. It serves retail customers in the northeastern region of North Carolina. The company sells and transmits electricity at wholesale prices to municipalities, rural electric cooperatives and wholesale markets. It has electricity generation facilities in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina. Virginia Power is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, the US.

Methodology

All power projects included in this report are drawn from GlobalData’s Power Intelligence Center. The information regarding the project parameters is sourced through secondary information sources such as electric utilities, equipment manufacturers, developers, project proponent’s – news, deals and financial reporting, regulatory body, associations, government planning reports and publications. Wherever needed the information is further validated through primary from various stakeholders across the power value chain and professionals from leading players within the power sector.