North Dakota ethanol plant secures grant funding to help expand

In North Dakota, the state’s senators have secured $341,000 in funding for Tharaldson Ethanol’s planned $3.4 million expansion through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development’s Rural Energy for America Program. The plant produced its billion gallon of ethanol back in April when it also announced the planned expansion. The expansion project will boost production by 7% to 180 million gallons, up 38% from the original installed capacity in 2008, making it the sixth largest plant in the US.