Poet to expand Chancellor, SD plant to 100 Mgy; new boiler means no increase in fossil fuel usage

In South Dakota, POET’s ethanol plant near Chancellor, will be expanded from 50 to 100 Mgy without expansion of fossil fuel usage. The expansion includes the addition of a solid waste fuel boiler that will produce more than 50 percent of the plant’s power needs.

POET continues its march towards more sustainable ethanol production at its corn plants, and investment in cellulosic ethanol production.

POET recently announced that its Emmitsburg, IA cellulosic ethanol plant, jointly funded with the US Department of Energy, will produce 125 Mgy including 25 Mgy from corn fiber and cobs. The plant, which will be operational in 2011, will pay between $30 and $60 per ton of cobs and fiber for the 850 tons per day required by the plant. The cob price equates to a price of $0.63 and $1.26 per bushel, compared to $3.60 per bushel for corn.

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