Northwest Renewables to launch biomass to power project
Vancouver-based Northwest Renewables is planning to build a 24MW biomass direct combustion electric power plant.
Construction on the $72.5 million (€50.7 million) facility will begin next year.
Various wood-waste sources, including wood chips and hog fuel, would be burned to generate steam. The high pressure steam would drive a turbine to churn out power.
The company which is owned by U.S. Ethanol had been planning since 2006 to build an ethanol manufacturing plant at Longview’s Mint Farm Industrial Park.
U.S. Ethanol-ownded Northwest Renewables’ original plan was to begin producing corn-based ethanol at the Mint Farm in June 2008.
But the company’s 31-acre property has sat idle since the company broke ground on the $100 million project in December 2006.
In the years since, U.S. Ethanol’s parent company, Makad has been redesigning the plant to incorporate the newest technology and comply with air emission laws.
Northwest Renewable still intends to eventually build a cellulosic ethanol plant at the Mint farm as a spin-off companion to the biomass plant.
Northwest Renewable is pursuing the biomass power plant now because it is easier to get financing these days through federal economic stimulus money and other funding sources for biomass projects, assistant city manager Dave Campbell says.
Construction on the $72.5 million (€50.7 million) facility will begin next year.
Various wood-waste sources, including wood chips and hog fuel, would be burned to generate steam. The high pressure steam would drive a turbine to churn out power.
The company which is owned by U.S. Ethanol had been planning since 2006 to build an ethanol manufacturing plant at Longview’s Mint Farm Industrial Park.
U.S. Ethanol-ownded Northwest Renewables’ original plan was to begin producing corn-based ethanol at the Mint Farm in June 2008.
But the company’s 31-acre property has sat idle since the company broke ground on the $100 million project in December 2006.
In the years since, U.S. Ethanol’s parent company, Makad has been redesigning the plant to incorporate the newest technology and comply with air emission laws.
Northwest Renewable still intends to eventually build a cellulosic ethanol plant at the Mint farm as a spin-off companion to the biomass plant.
Northwest Renewable is pursuing the biomass power plant now because it is easier to get financing these days through federal economic stimulus money and other funding sources for biomass projects, assistant city manager Dave Campbell says.
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