BlueFire Ethanol to build second cellulosic ethanol plant near Salton Sea in California

In California, BlueFire Ethanol identified Mecca, southeast of Palm Springs in Riverside County near the Salton Sea, as the location for a new 19 Mgy commercial scale cellulosic ethanol plant. The plant would be the second for the company, which recently obtained permits for its first plant near Lancaster.

The company uses a concentrated acid hydrolysis (”the Arkenol process”), rather than enzymes, to produce ethanol from yard and wood wastes and landfill garbage. The company said that it would use its $40 million DOE grant, obtained last year, towards the project, and would shortly commence fundraising for the remainder of the $130 million construction cost of the plant.

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