Greenhouse proposed near Jamestown, ND: tomatoes and cucumbers.
The ND Industrial Commission approved a $500,000 renewable energy grant this week for a carbon dioxide-infused greenhouse project to be built adjacent to Great River Energy's Spiritwood Station east of Jamestown.
The project would pump waste heat from the 99-megawatt Spiritwood Station and carbon dioxide from the Dakota Spirit ethanol plant to a greenhouse that would produce tomatoes and cucumbers. The Spiritwood plant initially burned beneficiated coal from Coal Creek Station, but GRE announced last year that it was converting the power plant to natural gas.
Glass Investment is the project developer and operator of Houweling’s Tomatoes, a world-renowned commercial greenhouse tomato grower with facilities in California, Utah and British Columbia. Click here to view the project application submitted to the state Renewable Energy Council, and here to view the project slide presentation.
Jonathan Russo, Value-added Energy Business Development Manager with the ND Department of Commerce, said the research grant would cover work associated with developing the CO2 capture and transportation system.
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