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Salgótarján biomass power plant

When operating at full capacity, this biomass plant would produce enough heat and electricity to supply roughly the entire population of Salgótarján. However because of its reliance on waste wood from forestry and chopped logs, logging would increase pressure on surrounding forests, where not enough wood is produced annually to fuel a power plant with even 20 percent less capacity. Also the plant would be constructed in a populated area, so air pollution and low-particulate dust is of major concern.