623456 external_news 1563314543 1563314582 <![CDATA[Timber Industry Pushes More Biomass Power]]> Marilyn Brown, a Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, was recently quoted in an article entitled “Timber Industry Pushes More Biomass Power” for Georgia Public Broadcasting, July 11.

Here's an excerpt:

If there’s one thing Georgia has a ton of — actually a billion tons — it’s trees. The state leads the country in acres of private timberland and volume of timber harvested. Some in the timber industry think we should turn more of that wood into electricity. 

From several stories up at Exelon’s Albany Green Energy plant, you can see a massive pile of chipped up wood, known as biomass. A long conveyor carries it up into the plant, where it’s fed into a boiler.

The biomass burns to make electricity for Georgia Power. Around the corner from the wood pile, a long tube snakes off, carrying leftover steam to power a Proctor and Gamble plant.

Read the full story here.

The School of Public Policy is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

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