Wood Bioenergy | a Hatton-Brown publication

Vancouver-based company Northwest Renewables, LLC plans to build a $72.5 million wood biomass electricity plant at Longview’s Mint Farm Industrial Park (Washington). Since 2006 the company had been planning to construct an ethanol plant, but has opted for biomass instead.

It is estimated that the project will employ around 400 workers for construction and around 70 workers permenently, for logging and processing. The plant will use a variety of wood-waste to make steam, which will drive a turbine and generate power. The company plans to break ground next year.

While the company’s orginal ethanol plans fell through, Northwest Renewables still plans to later add a cellulosic ethanol plant at the same site.