NRG Energy Inc., which operates electric power plants in Connecticut, won a 10-year contract to supply power generated from renewable fuel to the state of New York.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is buying power from  NRG’s Dunkirk Generating Station, a biomass-fueled plant being built in the western corner of the state.
The project, which is expected to come online by the end of 2011, will produce up to 15 megawatts of the station’s total output by co-firing with clean wood biomass, NRG said.
Unlike fossil fuels, renewable biomass is carbon neutral, with new growth removing the same amount of carbon from the atmosphere that the biomass releases when used as fuel. NRG plans to locally source sustainably harvested biomass including forest and wood processing residues.
