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Bill Belden consulting manager for the Prairie Lands Bio-Products, Inc. is a 1974 graduate of Iowa State University where he received a BS degree in Agriculture. Following graduation he engaged in a family farming operation until 1980 when he became employed by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation for 24 years as a Regional Manager. Following his tenure with Farm Bureau, Bill served as project manager for the Chariton Valley Biomass Project and the Long Term Test Burn.
His project management duties with the Biomass Project included coordinating feedstock development and logistic activities; organizing data collection activities on site during the Long Term Test Burn and coordinating and scheduling personnel for the test burn activities. He also coordinated contractor activities for construction, planning operations and environmental evaluations for this Department of Energy project.
Prairie Lands Bio-Products, Inc. is the producer group who conducted the fuel supply development function to the Chariton Valley Biomass Project. Prairie Lands is in the process of business modeling and fuel supply development potentially burning switchgrass on a commercial basis with coal to generate electricity. Prairie Lands and Alliant Energy announced a partnership in the spring of 2008 to develop strategies and plans for biomass fuel supplies for their fleet of boilers.
In addition to being consulting manager to Prairie Lands, he is part time employee with Antares Group Inc. working on the Abengoa cellulose to ethanol processing project in Kansas and developing harvesting protocols for miscanthus and biomass grinding activities at Idaho National Laboratory. Bill is also a member of the Council on Sustainable Biomass Production (CSBP) a multi-stakeholder group developing voluntary biomass to biofuel sustainability principles and standards for the production of feedstock for second generation biofuels. |
