- CapEx: $9.2 billion
- Jobs: 5,585 new (1,025 direct, 4,560 indirect)
- Product: Renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, green hydrogen
- Location: Port Allen, West Baton Rouge / Capital Region
- Project overview:
- World’s largest renewable fuels project will have daily production capacity of 65,000 barrels per day, or nearly 1 billion gallons per year, of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, green hydrogen and naphtha (a bio-plastics feedstock).
- The complex can store an estimated 380 million tons of carbon dioxide, enough to sequester decades of emissions from the production facility.
- The system includes a carbon-negative power plant, which will use biomass to generate up to 280 megawatts of power.
- The facility is designed to use forestry waste, agricultural residue, hurricane debris, fats, oils, greases and emerging feedstocks such as carmelina, carinata and algae oil.
- Estimated Completion: 2030
- LED news release: Nov. 10, 2020
Company website: Fidelisinfra.com/project/gron-fuels-llc