Benefits to California
The Powertainer has the potential to create jobs across multiple sectors, including manufacturing, feedstock supply chain (harvesting, processing, and transport), equipment operation, construction, and project development. Some of the benefits that commercial-scale biomass power generation systems offer California ratepayers includes:
- Greater reliability, clean energy
- Improves energy security by supplementing the utility grid
- Lowers cost
- Increases safety by reducing wildfire risk
- Improves public health
- Promotes economic development
- Provides environmental benefits
- Advances state policy goals for climate change
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