Pacific Ethanol cuts ribbon at California plant

13 October 2008 15:24  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--Pacific Ethanol has begun production at a new ethanol plant in California, its second production facility there and the largest ethanol plant in the state, the company said on Monday.

The 60m gal/year (227m litre/year) mill took investments of $150m (€111m) and increased Pacific’s total output to 220m gal/year.

The company is the largest US producer of ethanol on the West Coast with operations in Oregon and Idaho in addition to California.

Pacific Ethanol said it plans to boost its total output to 420m gal/year by 2010.

The US is the world’s largest ethanol producer with 10.6bn gal/year of capacity, according to the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).

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By: William Lemos
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