Supply Demand Forces Affecting Fly Ash
According to the Capital Power website, https://www.capitalpower.com/operations/genesee-1-2/ , the two coal fired power plants, Genesee 1 and 2, that produce fly ash near Edmonton, Alberta , will cease to burn coal in 2024. With the conversion to natural gas, approximately 180,0000 tonnes of fly ash that were consumed annually by the cement industry will no longer be generated once the two power plants switch over to consuming natural gas to generate power.
According to the Transalta website, https://transalta.com/about-us/our-operations/facilities/centralia/ , the massive coal burning power plant in Washington State will cease burning coal in 2025. The conversion of this plant to natural gas will result in approximately 840,000 US tons of fly ash will no longer be produced annually for use by the cement industry.
Collectively, these two separate power plants will cease to provide over 1 million tonnes of fly ash to the Pacific Northwest by mid 2025. It is under this paradigm change of supply that Progressive Planet continues to work on commercializing both natural pozzolans and PozGlass 100G, a ground glass pozzolan with added strength derived from the proprietary removal of sodium from the glass.