California Energy Commission awards almost $5 million for sugar beet to ethanol demonstration plant

March 1, 2013 |

In California, the California Energy Commission awarded $4,998,399 to Mendota Bioenergy to support the design, construction and operation of an advanced biorefinery demonstration plant in the Mendota area, where sugar beets will be used to create advanced biofuel ethanol. The project will use advanced enzyme and microbial techniques to convert 10,000 tons of sugar beets harvested throughout the year into 285,000 gallons of advanced biofuel ethanol.  Eventually, the facility could produce 40 MGy.

Category: Fuels

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