In 2011, ReEnergy Holdings LLC acquired the Black River Generation facility at Fort Drum, the home of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division near Watertown, NY. The Albany-based company had plans to convert the decommissioned coal-burning power plant into a biomass-fed powergeneration facility that would supply the military installation and surrounding communities with electricity.
ReEnergy hired D&S Engineering, LLC, which turned to ProcessBarron to supply much of the new fuel handling equipment, which would transport wood scrap derived from local logging efforts — as well as construction and demolition material — to the plant’s existing boilers.
ProcessBarron contributed key components to the robust biomass fuel system that is capable of keeping the 60-megawatt generation facility firing while handling the stringent requirements dictated by the military installation’s restrictions on fuel delivery