VISTA, Calif., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- As the deadline to submit offers
to SDG&E closed on May 30, Envirepel Energy Inc., announced it had
submitted for consideration, an additional 240 Mega Watts of renewable
ultra low emissions biomass energy projects to the electric company.
The request for offers to companies like Envirepel Energy answers
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Renewable Energy mandate that
utilities purchase up to 20 percent of their total energy supplies from
renewable sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, ocean, hydro, and
biomass.
"We submitted 240 MW of renewable Biomass projects to SDG&E this
morning under the 2007 RFO," said company founder Anthony J. Arand. "I
think this qualifies as a major watershed event for our company and I
believe this to be the largest single submission of biomass energy projects
ever submitted by one company to a utility in the history of the State of
California."
Envirepel Energy's process called "gasification combustion" cleanly
burns green waste and wood. It produces electricity without degrading the
environment or creating adverse effects on human beings.
Envirepel's first project, Kittyhawk, is a 2 MW biomass facility in
Vista, California, which is in the final stages of construction and
expected to be on line for SDG&E in September.
Envirepel Energy's San Diego County-based projects submitted also
include the 90 MW Fallbrook Renewable Energy Facility (FREF). "The
Fallbrook Facility would be the largest, and cleanest, biomass energy
facility ever constructed in California, Arand said.
The company's second, third and fourth proposed sites, viewed on
http://www.envirepel.com, are all 7.5 MW installed capacity facilities destined
for delivering energy to SDG&E, one in Vista near the Kittyhawk project,
one on the Los Coyotes Indian reservation, and the third on the Ramona
Landfill.
With the Vista Power Purchase Agreement signed and ready to submit to
the PUC for approval; the "twins" (Ramona and Los Coyotes @ 7.5 MW each) in
final negotiations to be completed inside of 30 days and also submitted to
the PUC for approval, that would give Envirepel Energy a total installed
capacity of 264.5 MW in San Diego County under contract with SDG&E if SDG&E
accepts the 240 MW bid under the 2007 RFO offering. "For the record, that
would be equivalent to about 50 percent of the state's total existing
biomass and 'Waste to Energy' generation in California," Arand said.
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