Florida plant to produce ethanol from citrus waste

In Florida, an ethanol plant owned by FPL Energy and Citrus Energy will produce 4 million gallons of ethanol from citrus waste. FPL is a subsidiary of the FPL Group which also owns Florida Power & Light. The project promoters say this is the first ethanol plant in the world to use citrus waste, and will use an ethanol process developed by the USDA in the 1990s to convert citrus membrane and seeds into ethanol. Previously, the waste was converted into livestock feed.

The plant will be constructed in Hendry County, near Lake Okechobee, FL which is also near to the heart of the state’s sugar cane industry. The plant will also experiment with sugar cane.

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