Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility 1 is a 60MW biopower project. It is located in Florida, the US. According to GlobalData, who tracks and profiles over 170,000 power plants worldwide, the project is currently active. It has been developed in a single phase. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in January 1989. Buy the profile here.
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Description
The project is currently owned by Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County.
The project generates 378,500MWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 30,000 households.
The process of combustion has been adopted in this project to release the stored energy from the feed. Refuse which is a kind of municipal solid waste is used as a feedstock to power the project.
The project consists of 1 turbine with 60MW nameplate capacity.
Development status
The project got commissioned in January 1989.
Power purchase agreement
The power generated from the project is sold to Florida Power & Light under a power purchase agreement.
Contractors involved
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises and Bechtel were selected to render engineering procurement construction services for the biopower project.
Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group supplied steam boiler for the project.
Palm Beach Resource Recovery is the O&M contractor for the project.
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