Cersosimo Lumber, a leading producer of high quality Northeastern Hardwood and Eastern White Pine lumber, has selected Turbosteam to provide a backpressure turbine to provide sustainably clean energy at its Brattleboro, Vermont hardwood mill. The project will extract energy from steam used to dry lumber in kilns, converting it to approximately 600 kW of electrical energy at very high efficiencies. The project will utilize waste wood from milling operations used in an existing biomass boiler. The mill will effectively be using the steam twice, firstly to dry lumber and secondarily to generate electricity. The project will be the second steam recycling project implemented in Cersosimo’s operations. There is an existing 200kW project at the Brattleboro Kiln Dry plant, in operation since 1989.

The project is eligible for Vermont’s Sustainably Priced Energy Development Program (SPEED). The goal of the SPEED program is to promote the development of in-state energy sources which use renewable fuels (SPEED resources) to ensure that to the greatest extent possible the economic benefits of these new energy sources flow to the Vermont economy in general, and to the rate paying citizens of the state in particular. Turbosteam’s steam turbine generator will generate electricity at 480 volts and it will connect to the local utility grid owned by Central Vermont Public Service through a step up transformer to 12,470 volts.

Cersosimo Lumber Company was founded in 1947 by Anthony F. Cersosimo. From a modest beginning with a portable sawmill in Jamaica, Vermont, Cersosimo has grown to be one of the largest producers of lumber in New England. Because of a 60-year commitment to quality, consistency, innovation, and fairness, a pack of lumber bearing the Cersosimo logo is recognized around the globe as a product that can be trusted.

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