Wood-coal mix

Mon, Nov 9, 2009 (midnight)

At the Reid Gardner coal plant 52 miles northeast of Las Vegas, NV Energy recently began a test to gauge the impacts of mixing wood chips into the coal supplies that is burned for electricity in the plant. If it works the way the company hopes, NV Energy intends to burn the wood-coal mix in the plant all the time so some of it can be credited as renewable energy, another step toward the utility meeting the state’s mandates for increasing the use of renewable energy.

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