USA's TENTH Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

[HoosierRon]

Range Fuels is building the first one in Georgia.

Mascoma Corp. is building the second one in Michigan.

Abengoa Bioenergy is building America's third cellulosic ethanol plant in Kansas.

Lignol applies to build America's fourth cellulosic ethanol plant in Colorado

Florida Crystals Corp. is bulding America's fifth cellulosic ethanol plant in Florida

Mascoma is building America's sixth cellulosic ethanol plant in Tennessee

[9/19/07] CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mascoma Corporation, a leader in advanced low-carbon energy biotechnology, today announced that it intends to establish the country’s first operating facility producing cellulosic ethanol utilizing switchgrass as feedstock. The project represents one of the largest commitments of capital yet made in support of the cellulosic biofuels industry.

Mascoma and The University of Tennessee plan to jointly build and operate the five million gallon per year cellulosic biorefinery. Construction is expected to begin by the end of 2007 and the facility will be operational in 2009.

Mascoma is building America's seventh cellulosic ethanol plant in New York

[9/27/07] Mascoma has begun construction on its first facility announced in 2006, a multi-feedstock demonstration-scale biorefinery located in Rome, New York. This project is being developed in partnership with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.

Poet is building America's Eighth Cellulosic Ethanol Plant In Iowa

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (October 4, 2007) - POET and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that they have signed a cooperative agreement for a commercial cellulosic ethanol project in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
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According to the cooperative agreement, phase one of the project will last approximately 20 months. A subsequent phase two agreement will then be negotiated to cover construction which is expected to take two years. Following construction, facility operation is expected to begin in 2011.

Verinium is building America's Ninth Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in Louisiana

[11/04/07] Based in Massachusetts, Verenium built a small-scale plant in Jennings in 2006, and began quietly cooking about two tons of local crop waste per day into ethanol. It's one of a few pilot plants in the U.S. acting like chemistry labs for cellulosic ethanol.

In February, Verenium broke ground on a 1.4 million gallon per-year demonstration plant right next to the pilot site. It would be the first cellulosic plant of its size in the U.S., and Verenium officials boast they're at least one year ahead of anyone else in the game.

This new plant should be built in March and start running later next year, but is still just the second of three phases, meant to help Verenium perfect the process on their way to building a commercial-scale plant.

That could make 25 million to 30 million gallons of ethanol per year from biomass as far away as New Iberia, if it were built in Jennings. Sites in Florida and Texas are also being considered for the large, third-phase plant.

SunOpta signs letter of intent for America's TENTH cellulosic ethanol plant in Minnesota

[11/20/07] SBI's proprietary and patented pretreatment technology, widely known as "steam explosion," has been industrially proven in continuous operation in a variety of commercial-scale applications, and is currently being utilized in a number of commercial demonstration cellulosic ethanol facilities around the world.

The proposed plant will be initially designed to produce 10 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year, with anticipated modular scale-up plans to expand the plant to over 50 million gallons per year. The plant will be environmentally friendly and use locally contracted woodchips as the cellulose source, with residual lignin serving as fuel stock for an energy efficient gasification and co-generation system that will provide the required power for both the corn starch and cellulosic ethanol operations.

[HoosierRon]

That's 5 plants in the last 10 weeks.

[goblue]

Now, if E-Flex really comes through, and we power them on E85 - thats some massive gas savings.

Consider this, a Prius driver who drove 80 miles / day would use 94% less gas if they drove a VOLT running E85 and only charged once a day. Amazing.