The ethanol plant is planned for Port of St. Helens land near Clatskanie, adjacent to PGE's Beaver CT power plant. They will use several storage tanks already on the site, but idle for some years. Cascade Grain is a partnership of Enron, Delta T(etOH technology provider), Foster Farms (grain originator, associated feed mill), Fagen (general contractor), and Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Co. (insurance provider and equity partner).

Design output is 80M gallons per year, about 75% corn (22.7M bushels), 25% hard wheat (8M bushels) per year as feedstock. All product shipped out by rail or barge, 10 or 11 saleable products including food grade fiber, CO2, Wheat Gluten, Wheat Brans, flour, animal feed and the like.

Facility is applying for an exemption from EFSC jurisdiction for both the fuel production facility and an associated approximately 40 MW cogen plant. Exemption for the cogen plant will be based on it being very high efficiency (6000 Btu/kWh), and the fuel ethanol plant exemption is based on four criteria:

1.- biomass feedstock,
2.- local land use approval secured,
3.- no large linear facilities, such as transmission lines or pipelines, and
4.- at least 90% of the fuel product shipped by rail or barge.