ECE sets eyes on US southeast ethanol market

13 October 2008 17:13  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--East Coast Ethanol (ECE) on Monday announced plans to build a 110m gal/year (416m litre/year) ethanol plant in the state of Georgia, one of four production facilities the company expects to build in the southeast US.

ECE said the other three plants, which will also each have 110m gal/year of capacity, will be built in Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina.

The company said the four projects would take total investments of $871m (€645m).

ECE did not say when the units would be operational. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Georgia has only one ethanol facility in operation with 400,000 gal/year of capacity, according to the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).

Most US ethanol plants are corn-based, but the small unit in Georgia uses brewery waste as a feedstock, the RFA said.

According to the RFA, two other plants were under construction in Georgia with combined capacity of 120m gal/year.

One of the units, which is expected to produce 20m gal/year of the biofuel, will use wood waste as a feedstock, the association said.

ECE's plant in Georgia does not appear on the RFA project list.

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By: William Lemos
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