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In 2007, BlueFire Ethanol received US$40 million funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to construct a 19-million-US-gallon (72,000 m 3) per year cellulosic ethanol plant in Fulton, MS. [1] [2] In 2008, the company unveiled plans to create a network of ethanol refineries located at landfills around the world.
By 2004, California completed a transition from methyl tertiary butyl-ether (MTBE) to ethanol as a gasoline oxygenate additive, making California the largest ethanol fuel market in the United States. [ citation needed ] There are four ethanol production plants in central and southern California, but most of California's ethanol supply is ...
By December 2010 the U.S. ethanol production industry consisted of 204 plants operating in 29 states, [7] [9] and 9 plants under construction or expansion, adding 560 million gallons of new capacity and bringing total U.S. installed capacity to 14.6 billion U.S. gallons (55.25 billion liters). [9]
A map of Summit Carbon Solutions proposed $5.5 billion, 1,971-mile CO2 pipeline. Summit plans to resubmit an application after modifying its route.
May 15—WINNEBAGO — When Corn Plus, one of the oldest ethanol plants in the state, shut down in 2019 amid low prices for ethanol, about 40 employees were laid off and the community of Winnebago ...
The ethanol industry says capturing carbon emissions from ethanol plants and sequestering it underground is needed to help the industry keep up with the trend toward greener energy.
The following year, the company expanded its operations by purchasing the Paulsboro Refinery in New Jersey from Mobil, making it the second-largest independent refiner in the U.S. [10] In 2000, Valero purchased the Benicia, California, refinery and interest in 350 Exxon-branded service stations in California, mainly in the San Francisco Bay ...
A large number of new companies specializing in cellulosic ethanol, in addition to many existing companies, invested in pilot-scale production plants. However, the much cheaper manufacturing of grain-based ethanol, along with the low price of oil in the 2010s, meant that cellulosic ethanol was not competitive with these established fuels.