Financial Due Diligence, Ethanol, Biodiesel & Biomass Power Feedstocks, Infrastructure Development, Procurement Monitoring

Alan offers extensive biomass-to-energy expertise. During the past thirty years, Alan has specialized in biomass availability and cost studies of agricultural residues, urban wood residues, forest residues, and sawmill and remanufacturing residues for financial institutions and project developers. These studies have been conducted in the states of California, Montana, Oregon, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Maine, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Hawaii, Florida, Washington, Alaska, Arkansas, the Country of Tanzania, Africa, the Provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and throughout the Country of Italy. Alan has extensive experience developing the infrastructure required to collect, process, and transport all types of biomass, negotiating long-term biomass fuel supply contracts, and in biomass fuel handling and inventory management. Alan was responsible for the procurement of wood fuel for the first stand-alone biomass power plants in northern California.  Alan has also prepared biomass feedstock supply plans and negotiated contracts for the delivery of rice straw and wood waste to potential ethanol projects. Alan has qualified as an expert witness in litigation of biomass facilities. Alan has a diverse professional forestry background in California, Oregon, and Idaho spanning sixteen years of managing timberlands and procuring raw materials for sawmills.  Contact Alan.