A reason to like FirstEnergy?

At least we're not talking about Duke for once:

Electric power company FirstEnergy Corp. said Wednesday it plans to spend $200 million to convert two units at an eastern Ohio power plant to burn renewable biomass like wood chips and crops grown as fuel.

The Akron, Ohio-based company said the conversion will make its R.E. Burger plant in Shadyside one of the nation's largest biomass facilities.

"Retrofitting the Burger Plant for biomass will expand our diverse generation portfolio even further and continue our support of state and federal efforts to increase reliance on renewable energy sources," FirstEnergy chief executive Anthony Alexander said in a statement.

During the transition, to be completed by 2013, the units can continue to burn coal. There will be test burns of the biomass fuel of varying amounts leading up to the conversion.

The plan is part of a 2005 agreement stemming from a federal court case in which FirstEnergy agreed to reduce pollution from its power plants.