The converting old pulverized coal power plants to use wood pellet fuel rather than coal provides a low carbon ready-to-go solution for meeting carbon mitigation goals, which is not only a cost effective, but also can create new jobs! In addition, the pellet fuel has many advantages than fossil fuel, including lower cost and lower maintenance & operation cost.
Advantages of conversion from fossil to pellet in power pant
1. Energy independence
The conversion of pulverized coal power plants from coal to pellets should be a part of the strategy for energy independence, for lowering the net carbon output of the power sector, besides, which is for long term security for fuel.

2. Low carbon emission
Today is turning up the global warming trend, the mainly cause is carbon emission of the fossil fuel combustion. If the transition from fossil fuels to pellet fuels for power production is implemented in wide range of power plan, believing that which bring into actual effect of carbon emission on climate change. Otherwise,there are serious constrains to use wind and solar power. Forever, the wind and solar generating capacity has to be thermal generated or hydro capacity, if not, the wind is not blowing, and the sun is not shinning, the wind and solar is limited.
3. Minor modifications
The last advantage is that the infrastructure for generating electricity from the pellets fuel is feasible. Only need relatively minor modifications, a power plant that uses pulverized coal in its boilers can use pulverized wood pellets. Just this is all right.

Conversion from coal to pellets creating job
The research from Future Metrics shows that pellet fuel is 2.88 times more expensive than coal, but the total cost(the capital cost to build the plant, the fixed and variable operations and maintenance (O&M) costs, and the fuel cost ), from pellet fuel is even lower than other fuels, which analysis the cost of conversion is about $210 per kilowatt (kw) of capacity. Older coal plants that do not convert to wood pellet fuel have to install new emissions control systems. Those new capital costs prompt the cost of coal fuel.
Every one million tons of wood pellets produced creates and sustains over 1800 jobs in the harvest, raw material, transport, conversion into wood pellets, and transport to power plant. For each million tons of coal produced, 1320 jobs are created. Coal energy content varies by type and moisture content.
From above mentioned analysis, it is clear that right now there is a low cost, reliable, ready to deploy, low carbon solution to our base-load power demand that will result in the creation of more jobs than those from the coal sector