Armstrong Woodwaste Cogeneration Plant

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Forestry in B.C. creates valuable products for customers around the world. In the process of creating these products however, the unused woodwaste has become almost as valuable as a potential source of energy.

Riverside Forest Products Limited, one of BC Hydro's major industrial customers, is harnessing the power of wood waste, using it to create steam to produce electricity at its Armstrong plant. An initiative that began as an idea primarily for cost-effective on-site generation in 2001, quickly grew into a revenue opportunity for Riverside through BC Hydro's call for green customer-based generation in 2003.

The 20 MW Armstrong cogeneration plant began feeding power into the BC Hydro grid on July 1, 2003, with an agreement to provide approximately 120 GWh of power per year, enough to power about 15,000 homes.