Southeast Ethanol Plants Move Forward
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Posted by Cindy Zimmerman – October 22nd, 2008
A Southeast ethanol company has formally announced the locations for four plants to be built around the sunbelt.
East Coast Ethanol intends to construct plants in Northampton Co., NC; Chester Co., SC; Wayne Co., GA; and Jackson Co., FL.
With a nameplate production capacity of 440 million gallons of ethanol per year, the four plants in operation would make ECE will become the sixth largest ethanol producer in the nation and the leading producer of ethanol and its co-products on the East Coast. According to the latest figures released by the Energy Information Administration, the Southeast ethanol market demand is estimated at 2.1 billion gallons per year.
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don davidson
If the southeast grew switchgrass instead of tobbaco, they could supply all of there demand for ethanol and then some.
S. Everett
If the southeast grew switchgrass instead of tobbaco, it would NOT be able to meet its demands for ethanol. One, 110 million gallon ethanol plant would require a semi-trailer load of switchgrass every 4 minutes. Why can’t we be thankful that we have a technology that is currently helping us reduce our dependence on oil? If we spent less time discussing the faults of current methods and more time focusing on developing and improving new and existing technologies, then we would be much closer to being energy independent.
don davidson
You are correct Everett, we should be thankful of any technology that will help us move away from oil as a transportation fuel. Switchgrass is only one of these technology breakthoughs, Algae is another promising source of fuels. Companys like Sapphire and Valcent are in the process of ramping up to full production of Algae fuels. Some of there claims are 10,000 gals per acare using saltwater. Both of these companys are in the desert Southwest area.
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