Japan: Taiheiyo Cement plans to build a 75MW biomass plant at its Ofunato cement plant in Iwate prefecture. The new unit will burn both domestic and imported biomass fuel. The new power plant will replace units damaged at the site during the earthquake in 2011. As such Iwate prefecture has decided there would be no requirement for a new environmental assessment.
Taiheiyo Cement to build biomass plant at Ofunato plant
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