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Westbury, Quebec (Canada)
Type: Commercial Demonstration Plant
Status: Operations started in 2009
Feedstock: Used electricity poles
Main Product: Syngas, Biomethanol (Cellulosic Ethanol in the future)
Capacity: 5 million litres /1.3 million gallons per year
Enerkem’s Westbury facility is the company’s first commercial biofuels and biochemicals facility. This demonstration-scale facility will be the world's first ethanol and biochemicals plant to use negative-cost and unconventional materials - treated wood from used electricity poles as a feedstock.
Operations started in 2009 with the production of conditioned syngas. Production of biomethanol at the facility started in 2011 and will be followed by cellulosic ethanol.
The plant is located in a rural area, near a sawmill that recycles used electricity and telephone poles. Enerkem employs the non-usable portion of these poles and creates value from it.