Indiana gets $227M Waste-to-Energy Plant - 9/19/08

ForeverGreen Enterprises plans to build a $227 million hazardous waste to energy plant in Indiana by 2010.

The plant will be built in a partnership between ForeverGreen and International Power Group.  This will be a two year startup gasifying waste.  This will be one of many they plan to build together.

The 60 acre plant built in LaFontaine, Indiana will intake 750 tons a day of chemical, medical and industrial waste.  They will use this waste to produce methanol and hydrogen.

Most waste to energy plants are built to use municipal solid waste, but ForeverGreen is instead focusing on using  chemical, medical and industrial waste having a high energy content and a high disposal cost.

These types of waste are not wanted in our landfills and are unsafe to burn.  The high disposal cost brings a large price reduction.

The U.S. generates 279 million metric tons of this type of waste a year which has been expensive to treat.  ForeverGreen wants to use this waste to produce energy.

This new plant is ForeverGreen’s first and is looking to build more in Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Florida and other states.

The plant will use International Power’s process to convert waste-heat to energy and ForeverGreen’s Progressive Molecular Dissociation which is a gasification and gas cleanup process.

The byproducts are scrap steel and silicates. 

Both companies are receiving some state and local government incentives for the plant.

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