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Linden biochar project seeks permits as PUC weighs feedstock classification and technology
Summary
Synergy Biocroducts told a legislative committee that its planned biochar and energy facility in Linden has several DEC permits but that its Section 248 application at the Public Utility Commission is on hold while the PUC examines whether the technology and feedstock classification fit existing rules.
Evan Zololio, owner of Synergy Biocroducts, told a legislative committee the company is developing a biochar and energy production facility in Linden and is navigating a multi-agency permitting process that the company says could take from six months to two years more.
"We're developing a facility in Linden," Zololio said, describing a pyrolysis process that converts biomass — woody residuals, manure or other organic feedstocks — into biochar and a combustible gas used to run generators. He told the committee the operation would recover engine heat for drying feedstock and could produce biochar for agricultural soil amendment, water filtration and as a source of long-lived carbon.
Zololio said Synergy has obtained an air emissions construction permit and a stormwater…
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