VIASPACE enters Giant King Grass agreement for Bio Electricity and Advanced Biofuels

VIASPACE has signed a contract with Mesquite Lake Water and Power LLC to produce Giant King Grass at an advanced biofuels facility and biomass power plant in Imperial, California, the company announced on Monday.

The American-based company first bought the 18MW biomass power plant and will reopen it as Mesquite Lake Energy Park Plant 1. VIASPACE now plan to restart it and fuel it with a combination of wood waste and Giant King Grass, after it was damaged in 2010 by an earthquake, Rodney L. Williams, managing member of Mesquite Lake said.

The Mesquite Lake Cattle Manure, which was designed to gasify cattle manure and produce 16 MW of electricity, has also been purchased and although currently closed, will be converted to produce advanced biofuels using Giant King Grass as feedstock.

'Between the two plants, there is plenty of land for our energy park. We are connected to the grid and there is an adjacent natural gas pipeline,' Williams added.

The 'multipurpose, high-yielding, continuously renewable, biomass platform will be used for direct combustion to generate bio electricity in ML Energy Park Plant #1 and will also be used to create advanced green energy biofuels in ML Energy Park Plant #2,' Dr. Kevin Schewe, VIASPACE Chairman commented.