Projects
Our principals have a long history of successful energy projects. Our operations team has years of experience making energy projects work.
BIOMASS AND ENERGY-FROM-WASTE (EFW)
East Energy focuses on appropriately-sized, industrial-scale projects.
BIOMASS
Biomass energy is the use of organic materials as fuel, typically in a tightly controlled combustion process. The East Energy approach is to use advanced boiler technology; proven commercial technology with controlled emissions equipment, all operating under a minor source air permit. The minor source air permit is obtainable in months instead of years, but it operates under the careful watch of the environmental authorities. It means that we make energy with more finesse than brute force—and that we scale it to the size required by the industrial users around us.
STEEL IN THE GROUND
East Energy opened its first 15 MW (power and thermal equivalent), 200 tons per day biomass power plant in 2019 in Farmville, NC. The Wilson and LaGrange plants, each at 25 MW, 280 tpd, opened in Q4 of 2024. Learning how to make energy from difficult ag waste has been a challenge nationally, and these plants each represent improvements and lessons-learned overcoming these challenges. Each site employs 18-20 technicians in well-paid "green collar" jobs with benefits and supports co-located industry with low cost thermal energy and small EMCs with inexpensive, baseline power. Project #4 is currently in development in roughly the same 60-mile radious footprint.
Click on the DOE Profile for the Farmville project →
(listed as Carolina Poultry Power, the local name of this East pipeline of projects).
WORK WITH US
If you have a waste stream with high energy content and/or a tipping fee or have a wastewater treatment or industrial facility that has a need for thermal energy, preferably in the North Carolina region, it may be worth a discussion. Our development team is well-versed in a wide range of technology applications and always open to discuss good ideas. Our motto is that a fast no is better than a long maybe but it’s useful to kick around an idea to see if it might have traction! Shoot us an email to discuss: info@eastenergyrenewables.com.
CARBON REMOVAL
By diverting waste which otherwise composts in the open air after land distribution, into a facility with extremely low minor-source emissions, the East power plants already have excellent carbon-negative balances. To take this excellent profile a step further, carbon is directly sequestered when the ash side stream (5-8% carbon), is tilled into the ground across the Carolinas as fertilizer. Effort to expand the effort is currently underway as the tech team is experimenting with the capture of carbon in the flue gas and the processing of emissions-grade lime to replace carbon-intensive current practices. Discussions are underway with both ground injection and concrete-curing as pathways for sequestration.
Distributed solar
The East Energy Team has obtained a rare certification from the North Carolina Utility Commission to offer solar equipment leasing up to 1 MW of generation. This means that any industrial, institutional, or campus client can engage our team to build a solar facility “behind the meter” through a lease arrangement. The client can enjoy the economic and marketing benefits of an operation directly powered by green energy, and capture utility savings and stable power pricing, investing only a long commitment to pay the equipment lease. Click here for a brochure describing this service.
Renewable Natural Gas (RNG)
Our projects are best-in-class in the biomass sector. Digesters are under development. Anaerobic digesters represent an excellent opportunity to complement the East fleet with a different approach to making energy. The East development team is currently working on a series of digesters to be co-located next to our existing sites. We have ample land with excellent infrastructure, an onsite O&M group, and multiple other synergies which make this a unique opportunity. Instead of letting various wastes deteriorate in open air and release greenhouse gases and odor to the environment, our digesters would harness these fumes for cleaner energy than traditional natural gas. The planned digesters would use agricultural waste, including pre-consumer crop waste, and a combination of poultry and swine waste. The team is currently working with tech/EPC providers, haulers, and waste suppliers to complete this circle.
Our build-and-own strategy is designed to integrate the relationship between waste diversion, clean power production, good jobs and strong community involvement.
We apply vast experience and outstanding legal, engineering, financial and regulatory resources.
Our sister company East Energy Operations has a deep bench and decades of experience operating renewable energy assets.