Washington state is on track for it’s first ethanol plant. US Ethanol of Vancouver has announced that subsidiary Northwest Renewable broke ground Wednesday on a 55 million gallon per year ethanol production facility in Longview, Wash. When completed, the plant will be the first large-scale facility in the state of Washington to produce ethanol, an alternative fuel typically made from …
Ethanol Plant News Briefs
VeraSun Energy Corporation, the nation’s second largest ethanol producer, has begun construction on its newest 110-million-gallon-per-year ethanol production facility near Hartley, Iowa. The plant is on schedule to begin production in the first quarter of 2008. (Read full release) US BioEnergy Corporation has set the terms of its pending initial public offering at 9.4 million common shares with an estimated, …
More Nebraska Ethanol Plants Going Up
Another Nebraska ethanol plant officially started construction with groundbreaking on Friday in Carleton. California-based developer Altra broke ground on the 360 acre, $200 million project which will have a capacity of 110 million gallons per year. Altra also owns and operates California’s only large scale operating ethanol plant, located in Goshen, CA and is currently constructing a 60 MMGY ethanol …
Buy American
American Ethanol has broken first ground on its way to a planned two billion gallons of annual ethanol production. The Chicago-based company broke ground last week on the first of 15 planned 100+ gallon-per-year facilities in Nebraska and Illinois. Sutton, Nebraska was the site for the ceremony on Thursday, according to this story from the Lincoln Journal-Star. Another groundbreaking is …
Midwest Ethanol Iowa Plant Meetings
Public meetings are part of the process of bringing an ethanol plant to any community. Plans must be presented and concerns addressed. Monona County Ethanol – a Midwest Ethanol Producers company – held two public meetings this week in the area where they plan to build a 100 million gallon per year facility. About 200 people attended the meetings held …
More Ethanol Plants Underway
According to the Renewable Fuels Association, 45 ethanol biorefineries are now under construction in the United States, with the groundbreakings of Cardinal Ethanol in Indiana and the Broin Companies’ Summit Ethanol in Ohio. Summit, located in Leipsic, Ohio, is a 60 million gallon plant. Cardinal will have a capacity of 100 million gallons per year in Randolph Couny, Indiana. “Indiana …
Pacific Ethanol Plant Complete
Construction of Pacific Ethanol’s first plant in Madera, California is now finished and the ribbon will be cut on October 16. The 35 million gallon plant will then begin construction and should reach capacity by next month. This is the plant with Microsoft money behind it (see previous post) – Bill Gates personally invested about $84 million dollars in Pacific …
Ultimate Ethanol for Alexandria
The Broin Companies last week announced plans for the development and construction of Ultimate Ethanol, LLC near Alexandria, Ind. The plant will initially produce 60 million gallons of ethanol a year, but is designed to expand to 100 million in the future. Ultimate Ethanol will be the 29th ethanol plant built by the Broin Companies, who will provide turnkey development, …
Plant Manager Interview
The General Manager of Missouri Ethanol is Robin Venn. He’s currently in the process of getting his house sold in Kansas City so he can move to the Laddonia area. I interviewed Robin after the grand opening festivities were winding down. He says that all the employees of the ethanol plant are from Missouri which he thinks is unusual but …
Missouri Ethanol Ribbon Cutting
The grand opening event for Missouri Ethanol is just finishing up with public tours. I don’t think they could have asked for better weather. I heard the attendence pegged at 585 but I think it was more than that. It was a big crowd on hand. The stage was filled with dignitaries who all got up together for the ribbon …