GPRE set to produce ethanol from Fairmont ethanol plant by New Year’s

In Minnesota, Green Plains Renewable Energy is preparing to re-open the Fairmont ethanol plant it bought for $53.5 million after it had been mothballed in September 2012. About half of the plant should be up and running next week with the first ethanol production scheduled by the start of 2014, and full operation at the 113 million gallon per year plant hit by the end of January.