Mission Statement

We continuously strive to meet and exceed the expectations of our customers, coworkers, owners, suppliers,and the community in which we live and work.

Turning Waste Into Energy

Biomass One has been in operation since the 80's. In 1989 Biomas One made historic changes to it's air quality control system. In total, Biomass One has invested over $50,000,000 to make this plant one of the most efficient and cleanest wood burning plants in America.

The year 1990 marked a change in the way in which Biomass derived a portion of it's fuel, building a two million dollar wood processing plant and opening it's urban wood waste disposal site.

In 1993 Biomass One purchased mobile processing equipment to bring Biomass One to your location. This equipment processes large amounts of logging and land clearing debris, collecting 41,000 tons a year. This material was traditionally land filled or open burned.

For larger volumes of construction debris, trimmings and other waste which the public cannot bring to this center, Biomass One offers a drop box service for waste deposit at less than half the cost of a landfill destined garbage container.

The community benefits of this plant are most easily understood in the context of how life would be without Biomass One. Absent our facility, nearly 355,000 tons of wood waste would inevitably lay in piles, find it's way into local landfills, or be open field burned. The ODF, Forest Service and BLM would also lack any economically feasible alternative to open burning of slash. The advantages to burning this debris in our facility versus open burning is a greater than 500 to 1 reduction in particulate (smoke) emissions.

This recovered wood waste is converted into electricity and steam, producing enough power to meet the needs of over 20,000 homes.

Facts & Figures

• Biomass One is a 25 megawatt wood waste fired cogeneration plan.
• Wood waste consumed annually - 302,000 tons. If all the wood were carried in chip trucks, the line would stretch from Medford Or. to Redding Ca.
• Public wood waste contribution - 59,000 tons. This is equivalent to 2,460 chip trucks.
• Currently Biomass One recovers 70% of the waste in Jackson county.
• All electricity is sold to Pacific Power.
• Reduction in particulate emissions through burning fuel in the facility - 500 to 1