There has been a resurgence of domestic interest in whether or not U.S. feedstocks customarily used to refine sugar—sugarcane and sugar beets—would make good candidates as ethanol feedstocks, as well. EPM takes a detailed look at the U.S. sugar market to see if it's economically feasible.
After decades of research and development ifocused on using enzymes to break down fiber, Iogen Corp. is poised to build what could be the industry's first industrial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant. The Canadian-based company has operated a 1 MMgy demonstration facility since the spring of 2004, and says it's now ready to begin building a commercial-scale plant sometime in 2007.
By Nicholas Zeman
January 04, 2007
Having been credited with backing the construction of the ethanol industry's first generation of plants, executives with Denver's CoBank talk with EPM about funding such a rapidly growing and changing industry. As far as cellulosic ethanol projects are concerned, it's not a matter of if the institution will finance them, but when.
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