Procter & Gamble and Constellation Announce
THE Procter & Gamble Company and Constellation, a subsidiary of the Exelon Corporation, yesterday announced the development of an up to 50-megawatt biomass plant that will help run one of P&G's largest US facilities.
The plant will significantly increase P&G’s use of renewable energy, helping move the company closer to its 2020 goal of obtaining 30 per cent of its total energy from renewable sources.
Constellation will build, own and operate the US$200 million (Bt6.5 billion) co-generation plant, |which will supply steam to P&G’s Albany, Georgia paper manufacturing facility and generate electricity for the local utility, Georgia Power.
For more than 30 years, the Albany facility has successfully used a smaller onsite biomass boiler to convert wood scraps into renewable steam, providing about 30 per cent of the total energy.
The new facility will replace P&G’s ageing boiler with a highly efficient combined heat and power biomass unit.
Incoming biomass will provide 100 per cent of the steam, and up to 60-70 per cent of the total energy used to manufacture Bounty paper towels and Charmin toilet tissue.
