Niels Henriksen, CEO of Inbicon, said: “The biomass refinery will use Inbicon’s proprietary technology to convert over 400,000 tons of wheat straw into fractions of liquid fuels, solid-fuel lignin pellets, and other co-products.”

The refinery would be integrated with the adjacent Spiritwood Station, a 62MW coal-fired plant being constructed by Great River Energy in North Dakota.

Gregory Ridderbusch, VP of Great River Energy, said: “Additional uses for our steam, like the facility proposed here, could virtually double the operating efficiency of Spiritwood Station.”

Inbicon develops technology for conversion and refining of soft ligno-cellulosic biomass into fuel, feed and green chemistry products.