Clean Energy Projects Approved

By 250 News

Prince George, B.C.- Several clean energy projects in the Prince George  and 250 region have received funding.

 Here are the details on the approved projects:

Quesnel Community and Economic Development Corporation

• ICE Fund investment $4.133 million
• Total project value - $14,797,600
• Project phase jobs - 84
• On-going jobs - nine

The project will use excess capacity from an existing industrial biomass energy system to produce electricity and heat for community use. The energy system consists of two parts: a turbine and electrical generator to produce electricity and heat; and a distribution system to serve local clients. Replacing natural gas, the energy from the new community energy system will heat city hall, a local hospital, a retirement lodge,provincial government offices, a recreation centre, other large buildings and industrial sites

E3P Technologies, Inc.

• Northern Development Initiative Trust Region
• ICE fund investment $2.32 million
• Total project value - $6,600,000
• Project phase jobs - four
• On-going jobs - 10

E3P Technologies, Inc. has researched and developed a patented device to capture wasted pressure energy from natural gas pipelines. Wasted energy from pressure reduction can be recovered and converted to useable electrical power. The device is scalable, reversible and ideal for converting pressure energy to mechanical work.

Pacific Green Energy Initiative "Smart" Street Light Coalition 

• Prince George, Quesnel, Vanderhoof, Fort St. James, Fraser Lake, Wells
• ICE Fund investment $1.3 million
• Total project value - $3,848,250
• Project phase jobs - 23
• On-going jobs - 300

This project is a commercial scale demonstration of "smart" street light technology to replace 8,000 to 10,000 lights in six participating communities. Electricity consumption for street lighting in British Columbia could be reduced by up to 100,000 MW hours per year by retrofitting approximately 300,000 street lights with adaptive lighting technology developed in the province.

Northwind Ethanol

• Prince George
• ICE Fund investment $1.246 million
• Total project value - $4,985,500
• Project phase jobs - 20
• On-going jobs - 28

Northwind Ethanol proposes to build a 500,000 gallon (US) cellulosic feedstock, fuel ethanol demonstration facility to make ethanol and lignin from woody biomass. The project supports new employment opportunities in the forest industry and provides fuel ethanol.

 New Hope Society

• Baldy Hughes Rehabilitation Centre (southwest of Prince George)
• ICE Fund investment $460,635
• Total project value - $1,316,100
• Project phase jobs - seven
• On-going jobs - seven

Baldy Hughes is former military base used as an addictions treatment centre. The project will heat eight of the 22 buildings on site from a centralized boiler plant fuelled by wood pellets. The heating system will allow for removal of existing propane boilers.

 Pacific Regeneration Technologies Inc. (PRT)

• Prince George
• ICE Fund investment $435,600
• Total project value - $1,306,800
• Project phase jobs - two
• On-going jobs - two

PRT's project will install a high-efficiency low-emission gasifier/combustor and boiler using poplar and willow feedstock, in addition to waste biomass, to produce heat for commercial, industrial and institutional buildings. The locally-grown woody feedstock is a valuable alternative source of biomass for the region.

Northern Extreme Bioenergy Corp

• Mackenzie
• Province of B.C. funding - $125,000
• Total project value - $375,000
• On-going jobs - four

Located in the Fraser-Fort George Regional District, Northern Extreme Bioenergy Corporation will build a commercial processing plant to produce biodiesel, using vegetable oil from restaurants in Mackenzie and the surrounding areas within an approximate radius of 500 km. Producing 50,000 litres in the first months, the plant will ramp up to full capacity of 300,000 litres as feedstock becomes available.

 Pure Power Global Ltd.

• Quesnel
• Province of B.C. funding - $880,000
• Total project value - $17,600,000
• On-going jobs - four

Pure Power Global (PPG) Ltd. will design and build a bio-refinery in Quesnel to convert 10 MT per day of woody biomass into cellulosic ethanol, lignins and xylose. The project will demonstrate the ability of an integrated bio-refinery to carry out air, soil and water remediation in a rural community and develop engineering specifications for a 250 MT per day commercial bio-refinery.

 Peace Biofuels Ltd. (PBL)

• Dawson Creek
• Province of B.C. funding - $2,000,000
• Total project value - $60,000,000
• Project phase jobs - 200
• On-going jobs - 106

PBL proposes to construct a 40-million-litre canola biodiesel plant in Dawson Creek, producing canola oil from an extraction plant integrated with the biodiesel plant. Most of the canola will be grown in B.C.'s Peace region and the biodiesel plant will contribute to the area's important agriculture sector

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