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Mt. Poso Cogeneration Plant is currently being converted to burn 100% biomass - agricultural and residential green waste from nearby areas.<ref>[http://mtposo.com/TheConversion/tabid/59/Default.aspx The Conversion], Mt. Poso Cogeneration Company website, accessed April 2009.</ref> [[DTE Energy]] is acquiring stakes from owners Red Hawk Energy and Northern Star Generation. The third partner in the Mt Poso plant, MacPherson Oil, intends to continue its ownership and management interest in the facility. As a biomass facility, it would produce about 44MW of power, DTE said, enough electricity to supply about 35,000 homes. Power is to be sold to California utility [[PG&E]] under a long-term power purchase agreement. DTE has completed a similar biomass conversion , the [[Stoneman Generating Station]], in Cassville, Wisconsin, and has another under way in Stockton, California. It also operates biomass power plants in Woodland, California. and Mobile, Alabama. The biomass conversion is expected to be complete in 2012.<ref>James Cartledge, [http://www.brighterenergy.org/19137/news/bioenergy/dte-to-convert-california-coal-plant-to-biomass-fuel/ "DTE to convert California coal plant to biomass fuel"] BrighterEnergy.org, Nov. 9, 2010.</ref>