COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio power plant has agreed to burn tree trimmings, grass, crops and other green material instead of coal to reduce pollution. Ohio Edison Co., a subsidiary of Akron, Ohio-based First Energy Corp., will repower a coal-fired plant near Shadyside in eastern Ohio under a federal court agreement announced Tuesday. The agreement was filed in federal court in Columbus. The Justice Department says Ohio Edison's R.E. Burger plant will be the largest coal-fired power plant in the country to repower with biofuels.
Ohio Edison will repower the plant beginning in 2012 with mostly biomass fuels along with no more than 20 percent low sulfur coal. The plan modifies a 2005 agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that required Ohio Edison to cut pollutants at several of its coal-fired plants.
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