Ontario Power Generation is looking at 2012 as a possible start of work to convert its coal-fired generating station to burn biomass fuel.
The province gave approval to the plan last week.
Station manager Ed Enge says they hope to use of as much of the existing infrastructure as possible.
"The conversion will leave the boiler and most of the infrastructure fairly well intact," says Enge, "but the coal receiving, handling and storage facilities will be abandoned. We will need new system for receiving wood pellets and storing them."
Enge says the project must also still be approved by OPG's board of directors.
