Amid actual atom banal shortages, aerial ammunition prices and advancing altitude concerns, the nations heartland looks to a altered antecedent of energy: Ag residues and renewable crops that accept no aliment value.
Centerview, MO -- Show Me Energy Cooperative (SMEC) of Centerview, Missouri has appear the achievement of a 150-ton biomass pellet analysis bake at the Aquila breeding ability at Sibley, Missouri. This is the aboriginal time for the use of biomass pellets for electrical assembly in the United States, extenuative over 253 bags of CO2. The activity utilizes Show Me Energys different biomass pellets to account blooming abode gas emissions for electrical production.
SMEC biomass pellets are fabricated from non-grain address crops of artificial such as Switchgrass, cornstalks, atom straws, fescue harbinger and added Ag residues or activity crops that accept no aliment value.
Steve Flick, Chairman of the Board, states, "This is our aboriginal pilot activity of utilizing biomass pellets in Missouri for atramentous firing. On account of our Farmer Members and its Board Of Directors, we are appreciative to be a allotment of this actual event. We attending advanced to alive with the State of Missouri authoritative groups, Aquila and Kansas City Power & Light to accommodate bread-and-butter befalling to bounded farmers while abbreviation our assurance on deposit fuels."
SMECs ambition is to aftermath bags of bags of renewable activity pellets to displace non-renewable fuel. If adopted on a all-around scale, this has the abeyant to displace millions of bags of greenhouse gases, which are amenable for today's altitude change crisis. While others are relying on aliment crops to actualize energy, SMEC is demonstrating a sustainable, environmentally affable way that doesn't abuse the aliment accumulation or skew the market.
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About Show Me Energy Cooperative:
Show Me Energy Cooperative has as its allegorical eyes a charge to authorize an innovative, profitable, arch archetypal for assembly of biomass based fuels which may be replicated above the country by baby ambassador endemic cooperatives that will accommodate a absolute bread-and-butter appulse on the regions area they are located. It is a non-profit, ambassador owned, accommodating founded to abutment the development of renewable biomass activity sources in West Central Missouri.
About Aquila:
For about a century, Aquila or its antecedent companies accept been accouterment safe, reliable electricity and accustomed gas service. Currently the aggregation serves about 900,000 accustomed gas or electric barter in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. The aggregation is currently in the action of affairs its backdrop in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska to the BlackHills Corp., and its Missouri assets to Great Plains Energy. If accustomed by the Missouri Public Service Commission, these affairs are accepted to abutting after this summer.
About Kansas City Power & Light:
Headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., KCP&L (www.kcpl.com) is a arch adapted provider of electricity in the Midwest. KCP&L is a wholly endemic accessory of Great Plains Energy Incorporated (NYSE: GXP).
Contact:
Steve Flick, Chairman Of The Board
Show Me Energy Cooperative
102 SW Missouri Highway 58, P.O. Box 177
Centerview, Missouri 64019-0177
1-866-328-0494
sflick@goshowmeenergy.com
