That project will burn a waste product imported from the Mainland until the developer acquires a local fuel source.
We actually had purchase power agreements signed by a wind developer and a municipal solid waste developer, but the developers had trouble finding a site and it was right about the time we were switching over to a co-op and the funding fell through.
Right now we get 93 percent of our energy from burning fossil fuels. If all of these projects come on-line that number will be down to around 55 percent.
We will be purchasing the energy, not the capacity.
We cannot include a wind turbine to be firm capacity.
The municipal solid waste generates power from burning the trash we throw away. The developer still needs to secure a source of fuel for that one.
Our next step is to create purchase power agreements.
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