Bridgewater Power Co, Bridgewater-Plymouth town line
Just south of Plymouth NH, actually abutting the town line on Rt 3/25 in Bridgewater NH is an electricity generating plant that burns wood chips to power a steam turbine that creates electricity that goes somewhere via its' power line to the power grid.
It apparently does not have its own website.
Besides the clean looking mix of white steam and white smoke that shoots out its tall smoke-stack is that it gives work to a lot of locals who cut the trees, grind up the wood chips and drive the big trucks loaded with wood chips to the plant.
Most of the tractor trailers haul'n wood chips are older trailers with the upper half of the two rear doors cut away, to load and unload their heavy load of wood chips.
Unlike nuclear, natural gas, oil, hydro, wind or sun powered electric utilities this Bridgewater Power Plant puts everyday local guys to work who supply it with wood chips and that is a very big difference. It makes electricity and it also spreads the money around to local NH guys from northern NH, north of the notch.
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