Upper Tanana Biomass CHP Project
Alaska Power & Telephone (AP&T), in collaboration with Nexterra and GE Energy, the communities of Tok, Tetlin, Tanacross and Dot Lake, with assistance from Dalson Energy, propose to deploy a “State of the Technology” community-scale Biomass CHP (combined heat and power) system that will offset diesel power generation, using locally-sourced woody biomass as fuel.
This biomass gasification system has the highest conversion efficiency of viable renewable energy systems, provides demand power, and is a new standard for renewable community-scale (2-10MWe) heat and power generation in rural communities, and in industrial and institutional facilities while demonstrating sustainable forest practices using small volumes of local woody biomass.
The thermal output will be available for a community district heat loop, and could integrate with the (pending) Tok school biomass heat project. Heat can also be sold to the proposed biomass pellet and briquette manufacturing facility.
Benefits include:
- Local fuel source alternative to imported diesel
- Creating valuable use for overstocked non-commercial Spruce forests
- Reducing wildfire risks around communities
- Creating local jobs for harvesting and processing of feedstock
- Carbon emission reductions using carbon-neutral woody biomass
- Improved local air quality using clean gasification technology
