California-based low-carbon, low-cost, transportation fuels developer Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. plans to inject $600 million in the construction of its Centerpoint biofuels plant.
Around 900 construction workers would be needed to build the plant by 2022, which would turn approximately 700,000 tons of municipal landfill waste from across Chicagoland into 33 million gallons of renewable jet fuel each year.
The company plans to employ 160 workers at an average wage of $29 an hour, not including benefits, to run the facility. Construction is expected to begin in 2020 and take as long as two years.
Once operational, the facility will process a dry, clean feedstock of paper, plastic and other waste products. After gasification, the waste products will be turned into a jet fuel that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 80 percent.