Growing wood pellet capacity in the U.S. South has made the U.S. the largest exporter in the world. Export volumes are forecast to nearly quadruple from an estimated 1.5 million tons this year to 5.7 million tons in 2015, says the North American Wood Fiber Review. North American wood pellet exports come mostly from the [...]
Enviva Breaks Ground On Virginia Wood Pellet Plant
The 10-year, sometimes controversial development of the Turner Tract Industrial Park paid off recently. With a shovel in hand, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and other officials dug up the first ceremonial scoops of dirt to build Enviva Pellets Southampton. “Thanks for your vision,” Bolling told Southampton County officials, who developed the Rose Valley Road industrial [...]
ConocoPhillips, Enviva Form ECo Biomass
Enviva LP has partnered equally with ConocoPhillips to create a new company, ECo Biomass Technologies, which will bring torrefied biomass fuels to market. The company’s initial facility, scheduled to be operational in 2013, will produce wood pellets that will be sold under agreements with major utilities. The torrefaction process involves superheating biomass to create a [...]
Enviva Announces Wood Pellet Facility In Virginia
Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, announced on December 1 that it is planning to build a 454,000 metric ton wood pellet manufacturing facility in Courtland, Va., which could begin operations as early as the first half of 2013. The project is contingent on the property [...]
Enviva LP, ConocoPhillips Developing Torrefied Wood Pellet Business
Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, has partnered with ConocoPhillips, a prominent international oil and gas producer, to create a new company, ECo Biomass Technologies, which will bring torrefied biomass fuels to market. ECo Biomass, jointly owned by Enviva and ConocoPhillips, will use a combination of [...]
Enviva Will Provide Biomass To Dominion
Enviva LP has signed a contract with Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Virginia Power to supply biomass to two power facilities in southeast Virginia. In April, Dominion announced plans to convert three 63 MW coal burning peaking plants to 50 MW continuous power plants using biomass. Enviva will supply two of these plants, located in Southampton and [...]
Enviva Tells Of Second NC Pellet Plant, Eyes Third In Area
Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, will build a second $60 million wood pellet manufacturing facility in North Carolina, just off I-95 at Garysburg, near the Virginia state line. Projected to be operational by the fall of 2012, the plant go up 52 miles west of [...]