Generating clean energy, Woodland Biomass Power in Woodland, CA produces up to 25MW for their customers. The plant utilizes 260,000 tons of woody biomass fuel annually: that creates electricity to meet the needs of 25,000 homes.
All renewable energy generated at Woodland Biomass Power is sold to Pacific Gas & Electric under a long term contract.
The plant's fuel comes from a variety of sources. These include: wood chips, urban wood waste, logs from forest thinning, tree/orchard trimmings, and agricultural waste such as nut shells and fruit pits. The plant also offers the local community a free drop off program to dispose of compliant wood waste and provides up to 30,000 tons a year of additional fuel that would have gone to a landfill or open-field burning.
Woodland Biomass Power has been owned and operated since 2005 by DTE Energy Services (DTEES) of Ann Arbor, MI.
The plant operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and maintains a staff of 32 employees with approximately another 100 others indirectly involved with Woodland's fuel supply infrastructure.
DTEES is committed to nationally cleaner energy and is currently converting a coal plant in Cassville, WI to biomass.
Woodland Biomass Power, LTD
1786 E. Kentucky Avenue
P.O. Box 1560
Woodland, CA 95776
Phone: 530.661.6095
Fax: 530.661.3124
Contact: Mike Blakey
