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Valley Bio-Energy Biomass Project

 

July in the Victory Garden

Valley Bio-Energy Biomass Project

Privately owned Valley Bio-Energy is proposing to build a 33 megawatt woodburning generation plant in a Modesto industrial park. This project would burn chipped orchard prunings and trees
removed from local orchards. The power plant would use best available air pollution controls. This process produces very little
air pollution or greenhouse gases compared to burning orchard waste in open fields, or allowing the wood to decompose naturally. Biomass energy generated from wood waste is considered “carbon neutral.” The proposed biomass facility would provide about 8 percent of MID’s annual energy needs and help MID meet state mandates for renewable energy and greenhouse gas reduction.

 

 

About the MID Victory Garden

In recent years Americans realized a war is on against a new enemy. It’s called global warming. A scientific breakthrough could quickly end this climate threat. Or the world may be entangled in decades of struggle and sacrifice.

No one can predict the outcome. But after 112 years of resource stewardship and service to agriculture, MID understands a few things: That lasting change comes about one person, one plot of ground, one pace forward at a time. That seeds of change planted today yield a harvest of victory one day in the future.

Each month MID writes about one of the seeds we’ve planted in our Victory Garden. You can read about them in the MID Update (PDF), the monthly newsletter with our electric bill, or on this web page.

 

 

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Plantings in the
MID Victory Garden


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Modesto Irrigation District
Phone Number: (209) 526-7373
Street Address: 1231 11th Street
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 4060, Modesto, CA 95352-4060
E-mail: customerservice@mid.org

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