Wood pellet manufacturing plants in North Carolina
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Wood pellets, climate change and North Carolina
This series on the wood pellet industry and the different views on the role of North Carolina forests in combating climate change took six months to put together, but drew on years of experience and reporting. It was produced in partnership with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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Here’s a list of wood pellet manufacturing operations in North Carolina, courtesy of Biomass Magazine.
Plant | Location | Feedstock | Capacity (tons per year) |
Ahoskie | Hard/ softwood | 370,000 | |
Hamlet | Hard/ softwood | 600,000 | |
Northampton | Hard/ softwood | 550,000+200,000* | |
Sampson | Hard/ softwood | 500,000+150,000* | |
Lenoir | Softwood | 30,000 | |
Laurinburg | Hard/ softwood | 90,700 |
Source: Biomass Magazine
*Enviva has received permission from the NC DEQ to expand these plants by the amount indicated.
Link to the complete list: http://biomassmagazine.com/plants/listplants/pellet/US/
This story was originally published January 3, 2020 at 10:15 AM.
