PELLET NEWS¦ Pellet producers awarded USDA payments
GCRE buys La. pellet plant
The USDA Pellet producers awarded more than recently announced $10,000 in payments include: a new round of Company Location Payment payments to biofuel Forest Energy Corp. Arizona $13,044 producers under the Appling County Pellets LLC Georgia $79,954 Advanced Biofuel Lignetics of Idaho Idaho $38,513 Payment Program. USDA Rural DeSomerset Hardwood Flooring Kentucky $12,979 velopment Acting Enviva LP Maryland $151,765 Under Secretary Doug Geneva Wood Fuels LLC Maine $13,374 O’Brien made the anMaine Wood Pellets Maine $24,127 nouncement Sept. 12 New England Wood Pellet LLC New Hampshire $65,984 on behalf of AgriculCurran Renewable Energy LLC New York $20,727 ture Secretary Tom Wood Fibers Inc. Ohio $11,149 Vilsack at the National West Oregon Wood Products Inc. Oregon $10,362 Advanced Biofuels Conference & Expo in Bear Mountain Forest Products Inc. Oregon $26,015 Omaha, Neb. Indeck Ladysmith Biofuel Center Wisconsin $14,284 The program SOURCE: USDA was established by traditional liquid biofuel producers, the 2008 Farm Bill. pellet produces and biogas producIt makes payments to eligible biofuel ers can also be eligible for payments. producers based on the quantity of Approximately three dozen pellet advanced biofuels produced from producers received payments under renewable biomass, other than corn this funding round. starch. The program is not limited to
Gulf Coast Renewable Energy closed on the acquisition of West Monroe, La.-based Bayou Wood Pellets LLC on Aug. 15. According to GCRE, it is making significant investments to expand the facility’s production capacity. Construction is already underway to increase the facility’s production capacity from 54,000 to 120,000 metric tons per year, said Westin Lovy of Bridge Lane Capital, a South Norwalk, Conn.-based asset management firm that provided funding for the acquisition and improvements. The pellet plant will take in feedstock generated from sawmill residue sourced from Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. The resulting pellets will be sold to overseas utility customers under a long-term offtake agreement. In addition to the acquisition of the Bayou Wood Pellet plant, GCRE is also pursuing plans to develop three additional pellet plants in Mississippi, including a 320,000-metric-ton-per-year proposed plant in Copiah County, Miss. Regarding the company’s expansion plans, Lovy said GCRE and Bridge Lane Capital are actively seeking opportunities in not only pellet manufacturing, but also businesses upstream and downstream in the supply and delivery chain in order to serve the domestic and overseas markets.
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NOVEMBER 2013 | BIOMASS MAGAZINE 15