Site work begins on Hampden waste-to-energy plant
The Sargent Corp. began site work on Fiberight’s new $69 million waste-to-energy plant in Hampden.
The Bangor Daily News reported the 144,000-square-foot plant is expected to convert organic materials from more than 115 communities into biofuels. Glass, metals, papers and plastics will be removed and sold. Plans call for using fibrous material left over from the conversion process to make heating fuel pellets.
In April, the Finance Authority of Maine approved $45 million in tax-free debt financing for the plant. The 115 communities are members of the nonprofit Municipal Review Committee, which represents the solid waste interests of 187 municipalities across Maine.
The committee's contract with Orrington-based Penobscot Energy Recovery Co., which also runs a waste-to-energy plant, ends in April 2018.
In a construction timeline posted in the Municipal Review Committee’s July newsletter, Fiberight projected the project would be completed by April 1, 2018, and able to start accepting municipal solid waste at the $70-per-ton tip fee.
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