The JOBS Project will host a Biopower Tour of a wood-fired plant in Campbellsville, Ky., on Saturday, Nov. 14. 

Participants will visit Cox Waste-to-Energy, a family-owned facility that uses the wood remains from manufacturing at Cox Interior Inc. — a furniture and homebuilder supplies company — to make electricity.

The JOBS Biopower Tour will provide more information about the various types of technology used to process waste-to-energy, including direct-combustion and pyrolysis. The public is invited to see how a biopower plant works and to discuss potential for sustainable biopower facilities in local communities. 

The JOBS Project works to promote rural economic development by focusing on renewable energy infrastructure and education. It encourages local residents to become investors in a growing market based on abundant natural resources in the Appalachian region, specifically woody biomass and wind. 

Sustainable development for wind energy and biopower is built upon the concept of distributed energy generation. Distributed power production occurs when power plants are scattered, just as the name would indicate, to reduce the distance of transporting biomass feedstock to the plant, and to reduce the distance that electrons must travel to deliver electricity. 

The Cox Waste-to-Energy facility tour will begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov.14. For more information, contact the trip coordinator Jenny Hudson at jennysuehudson@gmail.com or at 770-891-9048.

 

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