When people speak about ethanol production, they’re often concerned about competing with millions of people for corn, a crucial food source. That is, until now. Third generation biofuel maker INEOS Bio just announced that its $130 million Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach, Florida, is producing commercial quantities of transportation fuel from cellulosic biomass that is nonfood, landfill waste. Eight million gallons of cellulosic ethanol, to be exact.
The INEOS concept also beats out other ethanol technologies by having three revenue streams: the first and second profitably produce ethanol, while getting paid to take in plant waste (tipping fees) diverted from a nearby landfill. And the third uses the heat generated by the process to produce 6 megawatts of power, enough to run the entire facility and still sell excess power to the local community.
“They have successfully addressed the challenges of moving a new technology to large production scale for the very first time,” said Peter Williams, CEO of INEOS Bio and Chairman of INEOS New Planet Bioenergy.
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