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PACIFIC AG JOINS BDO ZONE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
— AS THE FIRST PARTNER IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN GROUP, PACIFIC AG WILL HELP DE-RISK AND ACCELERATE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT IN BDO ZONES —
February 8th, 2022 Eastern daylight time
Ecostrat is pleased to announce that Pacific Ag has joined the BDO Zone Strategic Alliance as the first partner in the Supply Chain Group. BDO Zone Strategic Alliance Partners are best-of-kind companies that help de-risk biobased project development in BDO Zones.
Bill Levy, CEO of Pacific Ag, says: “Agricultural residue is an abundant and essential feedstock to power the new industrial revolution to decarbonize large sectors of the economy, replacing fossil and other less sustainable inputs with renewables, while strengthening and diversifying rural farm economies.
Pacific Ag is honored to be the first Bioeconomy Development Opportunity (BDO) Zone Strategic Alliance Partner in the Supply Chain Group, bringing our experience and expertise to BDO Zone communities.”
Jordan Solomon, President of Ecostrat, states: “We are excited to welcome Pacific Ag as the first Supply Chain Partner in the BDO Zone Strategic Alliance. The addition of North America’s largest crop residue harvest and supply company as a BDO Zone Supply Chain partner will enable BDO Zone communities to de-risk agriculture residue supply chains and improve their ability to attract new bio-based plants – and ultimately create jobs.”
American biomass provides an economic development engine with the potential to create 160,000 jobs and nearly $15 billion of economic benefit. The BDO Zone Initiative can help the U.S. realize this potential by supporting new market development for American bioenergy, advanced biofuels, biobased heat and power, bio-materials, and clean hydrogen.
About Pacific Ag
Pacific Ag is North America’s largest crop residue harvest and supply company with over two decades of proven success and deep relationships across US and international markets. Pacific Ag operates all parts of the feedstock supply chain from grower contracting, harvesting with its owned and operated equipment fleet, inventory management and all storage, logistics and delivery. Pacific Ag currently works with over 1,300 growers that operate on over 4 million acres. Pacific Ag provides crop residue supply as feedstock to a diverse array of large, established markets including renewable fuels/products, domestic and export animal protein, erosion control products manufacturers and commercial mushroom production.
For more information about Pacific Ag, visit www.pacificag.com. To connect directly with Harrison Pettit, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development, email harrison.pettit@pacificag.com.
About The BDO Zone Initiative:
The BDO Zone Initiative (www.bdozone.org) is an economic development platform that enables local communities to deploy powerful economic development tools – BDO Zone Ratings—to achieve the goal of driving, accelerating and catalyzing biobased investment and commercial project development in BDO Zone designated regions for new biofuel, renewable chemical, biogas and bioproduct plants. BDO Zone ratings do this by carrying out credible technical evaluations on feedstock and infrastructure risk, and then enabling communities to effectively and easily signal and promote key feedstock and infrastructure “success” characteristics valued by biobased developers and investors around the world.
‘AA’ or ‘A’ rated BDO Zones identify the best areas for low-risk bioeconomy project development. BDO Zone ratings enable distressed communities to add capacity to support deployment of innovative technology and infrastructure, and this drives regional economic development to areas where poverty has been persistent for generations, harnessing natural resources to support biobased manufacturing and renewable energy production.
BDO Zones have the ability to move the needle on job creation, decarbonization, and social justice. By achieving the goal of 1,000 BDO Zones in four years across the US, this Initiative has the potential to create over 160,000 clean jobs, reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions by 2.59%, and provide $30,000,000/year into the local economy.
BDO Zone Strategic Alliance Partnership is divided into four groups: Capital Markets Partners, Project Partners, Technology Partners, and Supply Chain Partners.
For more information on the BDO Zone Initiative, please contact info@bdozone.org.
About Ecostrat
Ecostrat led the USDOE/BETO funded project to develop the new investment Standards and Ratings for Biomass Supply Chain Risk. Its Biomass Supply Group has over 25 years of experience in sourcing and supplying over 5 million tons of biomass feedstock for bioenergy, biofuel, and biochemical projects across North America. Its Advisory Group combines the BSCR Standards with powerful predictive analytics to understand and minimize supply chain risk.
Jordan Solomon is Chairman of the BDO Zone Initiative and President of Ecostrat. He has overseen development and operation of biomass supply chains for over 5,000,000 tons of feedstock over two decades for bioenergy, biofuel, and biochemical projects.
Jordan Solomon can be reached at jordan.solomon@ecostrat.com.
For more information on Ecostrat, visit the company’s website at www.ecostrat.com/standards.
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