Georgia’s Public Service Commission recently voted to approve the purchase of electricity from a Wayne County biomass project.
Touted as “green power” – burning wood for power generation has been shown to have a negative impact on the environment. Additionally, the plant will generate electricity at a much high cost.
Science for Georgia was quoted in a news story about the negative impacts of a biomass plant on both consumer’s wallets (Georgia Power rates have increased about $45 dollars, per month, in the past year) and on the environment.
Read the full article here – Georgia Power will burn more biomass from regulator approval | Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
To learn more about the negative effects of biomass as fuel:
See this article in Nature – How ‘green’ electricity from wood harms the planet — and people (nature.com) and Enviornmental Research Letters – Does replacing coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? Dynamic lifecycle analysis of wood bioenergy – IOPscience.