Primus Green Energy looking at New Jersey for biomass pellet factory

In New Jersey, Primus Green Energy is in talks with Plainsfield Township regarding the potential siting of a biomass pellet production facility that would use miscanthus and waste wood as a feedstock.

The company already has an MOU with Jaindl Farms to grow 3,100 acres of miscanthus. Primus has applied for a $35 million USDA grant to help fund the facility, though Plainsfield is only one of several possible places the project could end up going, depending on what the USDA decides.