Dartmouth Energy Plan Could Bring Changes to Power Plant in Center of Hanover

April 28, 2017

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by Rob Wolfe (Valley News) ... The current plant, which features a 175-foot brick smokestack, is located to the east of the Hood Museum of Art and burns roughly 3.5 million gallons of fuel oil each year to heat more than 5 million square feet of building space. It also produces 15 million kwh of electricity, Roberts said, about 23 percent of Dartmouth’s annual power usage.

Roberts and Friedland stressed, however, that no final decision had been made and that biomass is only one of many options that Dartmouth is considering, including biodiesel, solar, wind, geothermal energy and hydropower.

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Biodiesel, or diesel fuel made from vegetable oils, animal fats and recycled grease, would require minimal changes to the power plant’s facilities, according to Roberts, but costs more per unit of thermal energy than No. 6. READ MORE and MORE / MORE (Sentinel Source)

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