Utilities and pelletizing operations highlight how their operations provide jobs in rural areas of Virginia (as well as the Port of Chesapeake), and cite how forests are a renewable resource for energy in contrast to traditional fossil fuels - oil, gas, and coal. In addition, Virginia plants also process wood into pellets exported to Europe, where they are burned to meet European Union mandates for generating electricity from renewable sources. The renewable resource used as fuel is forest "slash," portions of trees (such as branches and tops) that are not suitable for conversion into lumber or furniture in the area. Virginia has several facilities that generate electricity by burning waste wood from timber operations, particularly Dominion Energy power plants in Altavista, Hopewell, and Southampton that used to burn coal. Source: US Department of Energy, 2015 Renewable Energy Data Book (Cumulative Renewable Electricity Installed Capacity - South) In 2015, Virginia had more installed capacity for generating electricity from biomass than from hydropower sources
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