Operating out of what used to be an underwear factory in Rabun Gap, the state’s first independent power-producing biomass plant officially opened on Earth Day, April 22, thanks to a 20-year, $225 million power purchase agreement put together by lawyers from Autry, Horton & Cole and McGuireWoods.
Green Power Electric Membership Corp., represented by Autry Horton lawyers Charles T. Autry and Roland F. Hall, signed on to buy electricity generated from forest waste such as wood chips, which will then be used by 38 electric cooperatives around the state. A 39th co-op has received board approval to join the group. Hall said he refers to the plant as the state’s first “independent” facility of its kind because it is the only biomass plant in Georgia to produce power and sell it to a utility. Some other biomass plants exist in the state, but they do not sell power, instead producing it solely to support their owners’ manufacturing processes.
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