Clean Power Development dominated the discussion at Monday’s city council work session with three of the four agenda items focusing on the company that hopes to build a 29-megawatt biomass plant next to the city’s wastewater treatment plant.
Clean Power President Mel Liston and project developer Bill Gabler described plans to set up a pilot algae production facility next to the proposed plant using waste water and/or landfill leachate to produce algae for biofuel.
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