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Biodiesel plant in Greenfield begins production

Processing tanks inside the Northeast Biodiesel plant in the Greenfield Industrial Park
Northeast Biodiesel
Processing tanks inside the Northeast Biodiesel plant in the Greenfield Industrial Park

Used cooking oil is turned into fuel

People gathered in Greenfield, Massachusetts earlier today to hail the completion of a renewable energy project that was almost two decades in the making.

Northeast Biodiesel, a Massachusetts-based worker-owned and consumer-owned cooperative, is operating a plant that turns used cooking oil into a fuel for heating systems and engines.

There are currently 8 people employed at the largely automated facility in the Greenfield Industrial Park as production ramps up to 1.75 million gallons of biodiesel a year.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Lynn Benander, president of Northeast Biodiesel.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.