Phoenix Renewable Energy is the second tenant to commit to Camden's Energy and Renewable Resources Park located on the former site of the International Paper plant in Camden.

In 2009, Phoenix Renewable Energy announced its plans to lease 37.11 acres north of the Entergy Substation on the former IP site to construct thereupon three facilities:

A 20.3 MW Biomass Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant which will produce excess electricity for the grid, steam for its second facility, and excess steam available for a another renewable energy company.

A Wood Pellet Mill Plant producing 180,000 tons of pellets annually to be shipped from the Port of Camden at which the project will spur approximately $4.7 million of improvements necessary to accept deliveries of 500,000 tons of wood pellets annually and two barge shipments daily.

A Wood Processing Yard with two cranes, a debarker, chipper and conveyors to the power plant and pellet mill.

Phoenix will also use onsite rail facilities.

Click here to see the site plan for these facilities located in the southern portion of the Camden Energy and Renewable Resources Park. Click here to see the improvements planned for the Port of Camden.

Currently, there is one other tenant:

• Chambliss Bridge Company (http://chamblissbridge.com/ ), a local company which takes decommissioned rail cars and turns them into flat car bridge decks with spans of up to 89’.

The Camden Area Industrial Development Corporation (CAIDC) owns the site. It acquired the last 52 acres of that site in 2008; together the site is approximately 110 acres. The site has several rail spurs, an Entergy electric substation, natural gas, municipal water and sewer, and water wells for non-potable process water. Nearby is the Port of Camden able to accommodate barge deliveries to New Orleans via the Mississippi River.