Hawaiian Electric Company Jumpstarts State Ethanol Industry
Environment News Service, March, 2006
HONOLULU, Hawaii (ENS) — --> The Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) moved the home-grown ethanol industry a big step forward on Tuesday. HECO President Mike May announced that the company intends to burn a mixture of plant-based ethanol and naptha to fuel its new Campbell Industrial Park Generating Station, set to open in 2009.
Ethanol can be produced from plants grown specifically for fuel like switchgrass and by waste plant materials like sugar cane bagasse and yard waste.
Naptha is currently refined in excess in Hawaii, so no new crude oil would have to be imported to meet the needs of the new power plant.
With this long term commitment from HECO to purchase their product, May said, local ethanol producers can go to the banks to get financing for land and...
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