The Jackson Laboratory Utility Plant Upgrade

Producing heat and power for The Jackson Laboratory facilities.

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Location
Bar Harbor, ME
Delivery Method
Design-Build
Client
The Jackson Laboratory
Year Complete
2011
Region
Northeast

Project Overview

This project involved the construction of a new 1200-horsepower Petrokraft biomass-fired utility plant. Work included a new energy center to house a Babcock & Wilcox boiler fueled by wood powder burned in suspension.

The combined heat and power facility uses 11,000 tons of Forest Stewardship Council-certified Maine wood products to produce a steam by-product to heat over 700,000 square feet of building space on the campus. This process offsets nearly 1.3 million gallons of fuel oil consumption each year, eliminating 12,500 tons of CO2 equivalent from the Laboratory’s carbon footprint.

1200

Horsepower Biomass-Fired Utility Plant

2.2M

kWh Produced Each Year by Facility

12,500

Tons CO2 Eliminated from Carbon Footprint