Revelstoke Development News - January, 2003

Revelstoke Community Energy Project
In November, the Project issued a Request for Proposals to suppliers of Steam Turbine Generators and Biomass Combustor/Boiler Suppliers for provision of the individual pieces of equipment and/or full Design/Build proposals. It is apparent that a more sophisticated plant, than was initially planned, is needed to handle all wood residue generated in the immediate Revelstoke Area as well as to have the flexibility to take full advantage of fuel with less than 50% moisture content. This latter advantage would be the generation of more electricity with obvious financial benefit to the Project.
Perseverance is not
a long race;

it is many short races
one after another!

Walter Elliott

The result of these determinations is
that a $13.0M Project has now become
an $18.0M Project. This has set us back
in arranging financing but we are pressing
forward. An application for funding from
the Federal / Provincial / Municipal Infrastructure Program has been
submitted and we await a response. Needless to say there are many other issues to be dealt with but they are all manageable. Getting secure financing in place is the critical step at hand.

It is distressing, that with all the talk of meeting Kyoto commitments, the government does not have programs in place that will give the kind of substantive support needed for a project like Revelstoke’s to help meet those commitments.

Geoff Battersby

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