Mendota Bioenergy gets OK on $1.5M grant for sugarbeet ethanol
In California, Mendota Bioenergy’s grant application that BioFuels Digest reported September 15 has been approved. The California Energy Commission awarded a $1.5 million grant. The IR1 Group and UC Davis are working with Mendota as engineering consultants and project developers.
The three organizations will add just under $1.58 million in matching funds as they work together, testing the feasibility of using agricultural waste sugar beets to produce electricity, biomethane and ethanol. If the plant operates as envisioned, the project would consume 80,000 tons of agricultural waste and 840,000 tons of sugar beets to produce 1.6 million cubic feet of biomethane, compost, 6.3 megawatts of electricity, 33.5 MGy ethanol and liquid fertilizer.
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