From pellets to power: Inside North America’s first power ...
2021-4-30 · Instead of being decommissioned with the other coal-fired plants, in 2014, the Atikokan, Ont., generating station became North America’s first plant to be converted from coal to biomass. Built in 1985, the plant was still considered fairly new with plenty of service life remaining, prompting the provincial government to recommission it as a ...