ABOUT CSEA

The objective of the CSEA / SPEC Project is to construct a bioenergy facility generating 20mw green electricity and 150 million liters ethanol annually. The facility will use sorghum, millet Industrial and Waste Edible Sweet potatoes as the feedstock and will produce many other value added products in addition to Green Electricity and Ethanol
 

CSEA Co-operative Inc. (CSEA) has been established as an exclusive feedstock provider for the Sand Plains Energy Corporation (SPEC) energy plant. The main feedstocks CSEA will be providing are sorghum, millet and waste edible or industrial sweet potatoes.    

CSEA originated as the Canadian Sweet Potato Ethanol Alliance. With our broader mandate, including green power generation and the additional feedstock crops, we are now Co-op Services for Energy Alternatives. Sweet Potatoes are a high value edible crop, which can bring much needed revenue to the farmers in the Southern Ontario Sand Plains located close to the shore of Lake Erie.

The SPEC green electricity and ethanol facility will rely on locally grown sweet potato waste product and low value purposely grown millet and sorghum crops. All of these crops will represent new economy for the region and with 100,000 acres of new production it is estimated that 1 billion dollars of new economic activity would be created. 

• This project has the potential to involve as many as 2000 farm families as the principal producers of the new feedstock.
• We anticipate that up to 100,000 acres of light sandy farm soil close to the Lake Erie Shores would be put into profitable production.
• Thousands of farm related jobs will be created.