Abengoa Bioenergy aims for 2013 launch of cellulosic ethanol project

In Kansas, Brighter Energy.org is reporting that Abengoa Bioenergy is on track to be operational at its proposed Hugoton-based cellulosic ethanol plant by 2013, and said that it has contracted for as much as 60 percent of the feedstock needed to supply the plant.

The company said that it had still not completed its process design based on data from the pilot plant in York, and the company’s demonstration-scale plant in Spain. The company, which will supply 75 Mgy of power to the grid, has applied for but not yet received a DOE loan guarantee.

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