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Florida news:
Florida's first commercial
ethanol plant announced
Thursday, January 15, 2009
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A Massachusetts
biofuel company is teaming up with a Florida business to
build the state's first commercial-scale ethanol plant,
and says it should be up and running by 2011.
Verenium and Tampa-based Lykes Bros. Inc. announced
Thursday plans to build a commercial facility that will
produce up to 36 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol a
year and create 140 full-time jobs.
Cellulosic ethanol is produced from natural, plant
waste products including sugarcane stalks and wood
chips. Verenium says it's superior to other ethanols
because it doesn't use food crops.
Researchers at the University of Florida developed
the conversion process.
The plant will be one of the first cellulosic ethanol
production sites in the nation.
A handful of other cellulosic projects have been announced around
the country, but Verenium, which already has a functioning pilot
plant in Louisiana, is further along than other companies, Ingram
said. The Cambridge, Mass., company is also planning projects in
Alabama, Louisiana and Texas.
"This plant, the first of many we anticipate building in the
years ahead, will help fulfill the U.S. government's mandate for
advanced, sustainable biofuels to meet America's energy needs,"
said Carlos A. Riva, president and chief executive of Verenium.
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