Agrilectric Power Partners

More than three decades ago, The Powell Group realized the need to use the hulls removed from rice during milling at their Farmers Rice Mill. Agrilectric is world-known for being the first to design and build a commercially operated rice hull-fired power plant of this kind. It has successfully produced energy and quality rice hull ash since 1984 with an in-service rate of over 94 percent. The 12-megawatt plant consumes about 330-tons of rice hulls every day. By burning rice hulls, Agrilectric has taken an environmental liability by removing 115,000 short tons of rice hulls from the landfill and turned it into an asset.

Agrilectric provides all the power needed to run the adjacent rice mill and the plant itself with the excess (approximately 75%) being sold to the local power company.