Babcock & Wilcox selected for large biomass power plant in Louisiana

Babcock & Wilcox will partner as a preferred technology supplier with Kiewit Industrial to deliver Fidelis New Energy's planned net-negative carbon impact biomass power plant at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The 200 MW electric plant will be the largest of its kind in the world. The planned facility, called Project Cyclus, will provide power for Fidelis' state-of-the-art, 73,000-barrel-per-day Gron Fuels facility, which will produce sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, green hydrogen, and bio-plastic feedstock with a net-negative carbon dioxide footprint. B&W will provide engineering, design, equipment, and technology services to support development of the biomass-fueled plant. The company's B&W Renewable business segment will design and supply a 200 MW electric, biomass-fueled bubbling fluidized bed boiler, while its B&W Environmental segment will provide its OxyBright oxy-combustion technology to isolate and capture CO2 for long-term sequestration, as well as a full suite of environmental technologies to control other emissions. The plant will utilize these technologies to produce clean energy with a net-negative carbon impact of over two million tons per year.