PRAIRIE LANDS BIOMASS

The Chariton Valley Biomass Project was a cooperative effort between the Chariton Valley Resource Conservation and Development Inc., Alliant Energy, Prairie Lands Biomass LLC, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Based in Southern Iowa, the Project ™s partners were seeking to demonstrate the technical and commercial feasibility of producing power from locally-grown and harvested renewable fuel resources: switchgrass and other native southern Iowa grasses. Switchgrass once grew abundantly in the soils of southern Iowa ™s rolling hills simply because the two were well-suited. This natural companionship, along with the excellent burn qualities of switchgrass, created interest in the potential of growing the plant on marginal land as an alternative energy crop and a renewable fuel supply for power generation at Alliant Energy ™s Ottumwa Generating Station in Chillicothe, IA. The project was managed by the Chariton Valley Resource Conservation and Development, Inc., based in Centerville, IA,..

Also known as: Prairie Lands Biomass LLC

Primary location: Ames United States