Kansas Gets First U.S. Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

Environment News Service, August, 2007 by staff"

HUGOTON, Kansas (ENS) — --> A Spanish energy company has selected the town of Hugoton in southwestern Kansas as the site of the first U.S. plant to turn corn stalks, switchgrass and other woody biomass into ethanol.

Abengoa Bioenergy announced the $400 million ethanol project on Thursday. The facility will include an 85 million gallon per year corn-to-ethanol production plant as well as the 30 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol plant.

The cellulosic ethanol plant will use 700 tons per day of corn stover, wheat straw, milo stubble, switchgrass, and other feedstocks.

Environmentalists view cellulose as a cleaner, more efficient source of fuel than corn ethanol and one that does not remove corn from the feed and food supply chain.

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