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Released July 27, 2021 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Led by renewable energy projects, Oregon features active projects worth more than $20.5 billion being tracked by Industrial Info. But the largest single project is the expansion of a semiconductor fabrication facility.
Click on the image at right for a breakdown by industry of active industrial projects in Oregon.
Renewable energy projects represent nearly $9 billion of Oregon's active projects and, unlike many other states, cover diverse fuel types, with solar taking the lead at more than $4.3 billion worth of projects. Solar projects range from smaller-sized up to 400 megawatts. Examples include NextEra Energy Incorporated's (NYSE:NEE) (Juno Beach, Florida) Wheatridge solar farm near Echo, in the northwest of state. The facility will use approximately 200,000 NEXTracker photovoltaic modules to generate 50 MW. Cupertino Electric Incorporated (San Jose, California) is providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services on the project, which kicked off earlier this summer and is expected to completed by yearend. The project is being constructed next to a NextEra windfarm. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Project Database can click here for the detailed project report.
Wind projects include Iberdrola SA's (Bilbao, Spain) Golden Hills Windfarm near Moro, about 110 miles east of Portland. Sherman County, home to Moro, has been a destination for windfarms since 2002. According to the New York Times, the county was earning $3 million in property taxes on the facilities more than a decade ago, and this has increased since then. Construction on the 200-MW Golden Hills Windfarm began in the summer of 2020, and the project is expected to wrap up in 2022. M.A. Mortenson Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota) is providing EPC services for the facility, which will use 125 1.6-MW wind turbines. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is at work on several upgrade and modernization projects at the state's hydropower plants, such as the Tainter gate refurbishment at the 100-MW Detroit Hydropower Station in Mill City, Oregon. Tainter gates help control water flow in dams and canal locks. Six of them are being refurbished at the Detroit station. The project kicked off in the summer of 2019 and is expected to be completed later this year. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) (Santa Clara, California) has been underway with Oregon's largest active project since 2019, and completion is coming just in time. The company has been at work on the expansion of its D1X semiconductor fab since mid-2019, and the project is set to be completed soon, as the world faces a semiconductor shortage. According to Intel, the project required one of the world's largest construction cranes, and the expansion will be reinforced with 24,000 tons of rebar--twice the weight of the Eiffel Tower. The project entails the construction of two buildings totaling 1.5 million square feet, including a new technology building, which will enable the plant to increase manufacturing capacity by about 60%. According to news media, the D1X facility will be the company's first plant equipped with extreme ultraviolet lithography, which Intel will need for the manufacture of its 7-nanometer class of chips. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Industrial Manufacturing Database can click here for the project report.
After Power and Industrial Manufacturing, Alternative Fuels comes in third place in regard to the value of active projects. Red Rock Biofuels LLC (Fort Collins, Colorado) is at work on a grassroot biomass-to-liquids plant in Lakeview. The facility will use a Fischer-Tropsch gasification system to process 166,000 dry tons per year of forestry biomass into 16 million gallons per year of liquid fuels, such as jet fuel, renewable diesel and naphtha. The plant will capture waste carbon dioxide. Construction kicked off in the summer of 2018 and is expected to wrap up early next year. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Alternative Fuels Database can click here for the detailed project report.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, six offices in North America and 12 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. Follow IIR on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn.
Click on the image at right for a breakdown by industry of active industrial projects in Oregon.Renewable energy projects represent nearly $9 billion of Oregon's active projects and, unlike many other states, cover diverse fuel types, with solar taking the lead at more than $4.3 billion worth of projects. Solar projects range from smaller-sized up to 400 megawatts. Examples include NextEra Energy Incorporated's (NYSE:NEE) (Juno Beach, Florida) Wheatridge solar farm near Echo, in the northwest of state. The facility will use approximately 200,000 NEXTracker photovoltaic modules to generate 50 MW. Cupertino Electric Incorporated (San Jose, California) is providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services on the project, which kicked off earlier this summer and is expected to completed by yearend. The project is being constructed next to a NextEra windfarm. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Project Database can click here for the detailed project report.
Wind projects include Iberdrola SA's (Bilbao, Spain) Golden Hills Windfarm near Moro, about 110 miles east of Portland. Sherman County, home to Moro, has been a destination for windfarms since 2002. According to the New York Times, the county was earning $3 million in property taxes on the facilities more than a decade ago, and this has increased since then. Construction on the 200-MW Golden Hills Windfarm began in the summer of 2020, and the project is expected to wrap up in 2022. M.A. Mortenson Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota) is providing EPC services for the facility, which will use 125 1.6-MW wind turbines. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is at work on several upgrade and modernization projects at the state's hydropower plants, such as the Tainter gate refurbishment at the 100-MW Detroit Hydropower Station in Mill City, Oregon. Tainter gates help control water flow in dams and canal locks. Six of them are being refurbished at the Detroit station. The project kicked off in the summer of 2019 and is expected to be completed later this year. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) (Santa Clara, California) has been underway with Oregon's largest active project since 2019, and completion is coming just in time. The company has been at work on the expansion of its D1X semiconductor fab since mid-2019, and the project is set to be completed soon, as the world faces a semiconductor shortage. According to Intel, the project required one of the world's largest construction cranes, and the expansion will be reinforced with 24,000 tons of rebar--twice the weight of the Eiffel Tower. The project entails the construction of two buildings totaling 1.5 million square feet, including a new technology building, which will enable the plant to increase manufacturing capacity by about 60%. According to news media, the D1X facility will be the company's first plant equipped with extreme ultraviolet lithography, which Intel will need for the manufacture of its 7-nanometer class of chips. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Industrial Manufacturing Database can click here for the project report.
After Power and Industrial Manufacturing, Alternative Fuels comes in third place in regard to the value of active projects. Red Rock Biofuels LLC (Fort Collins, Colorado) is at work on a grassroot biomass-to-liquids plant in Lakeview. The facility will use a Fischer-Tropsch gasification system to process 166,000 dry tons per year of forestry biomass into 16 million gallons per year of liquid fuels, such as jet fuel, renewable diesel and naphtha. The plant will capture waste carbon dioxide. Construction kicked off in the summer of 2018 and is expected to wrap up early next year. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Alternative Fuels Database can click here for the detailed project report.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, six offices in North America and 12 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. Follow IIR on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn.
