Richland Parish, Louisiana
The Richland Parish, Louisiana BDO Zone for Woody Biomass is rated ‘A’.
Rating Issue Date: February 12, 2024.
Commercial quantities of low-risk woody biomass are available for biobased projects. The infrastructure for woody biomass harvesting and processing are well-established with a large pool of experienced labor.
Richland Parish, LA holds an investment-grade BDO Zone ‘A’ Rating for Forest residuals, Sawmill residuals, Pulpwood. Issued in Feb 2024, the rating certifies approximately 1,354,000 gt/yr of reliable, low-risk biomass feedstock available within a 75-mile driving distance from the center point (Rayville, LA).
A ‘A’ rating is an investment grade rating, signalling a reliable, low-risk feedstock supply. It signals to developers, lenders, and investors that Richland Parish, LA’s feedstock supply has undergone rigorous, standardized due diligence across 100+ risk indicators, the same framework applied to every BDO Zone across North America.
Every BDO Zone Rating assesses a region across three dimensions, mapped as expanding radii around a candidate site.
- Feedstock surplus: Data indicating at least 50,000 tonnes per year of excess feedstock available to support typical intake of new biofuels manufacturing plants.
- Supply chain strength: Evidence supporting long-term commitment to supply both quantity and quality by local farmers, forestry companies, food waste generators, haulers and municipalities.
- Sound infrastructure: Suitable transportation, logistic, operating and supporting infrastructure to meet the requirements for new facility operations.
Assets & liabilities
- Over 650,000 bdt/yr of low-risk woody biomass available for new bio-economy industries.
- A highly productive forest products industry guarantees a stable supply of feedstock.
- Forestry supply chain is well established and efficient.
- Industrial and transportation infrastructure is compatible with large-scale bioeconomy projects.
- Richland Parish is a probusiness community with low operating costs and attractive quality of life.
- Insurance requirements are contributing to a shortage of logging truck drivers and forestry operators.
- A growing global industrial wood pellet industry may result in increased competition for pulpwood.
- The BDO Zone supply area is located in a potential flood zone, meaning that during wetter periods of the year there may be access restrictions to areas where logging and residuals collection are occurring.
Infrastructure & sites
- 300 open acres located on the Holly Ridge I-20 exit with over a mile of KCS rail frontage. Electric, water and sewer easily available for connection.
- Over 300 open and precision leveled acres located on the Holly Ridge I-20 exit with over a mile of KCS rail frontage. Electric, water and sewer easily available for connection.
- Nearly 400 acres of open and precision leveled farmland located shortly north of the Bee Bayou I-20 exit with nearly two miles of KCS rail frontage. Electric, water and sewer easily available for connection.
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