Green Holding Biofuels
Location: Tremont, Pennsylvania
Target groundbreaking: July 2008
Feedstock: corn
Capacity: 120 MMgy
Design/build team: Katzen International
Synopsis: In addition to producing ethanol, the plant will process 10 MMgy of biodiesel from corn oil. It will use “waste coal” from nearby coalfields as an energy source. The plant has been permitted for up to 500 MMgy.

Keystone Ethanol Energy Producers LLC
Location: Mercer or Crawford counties, Pennsylvania
Target groundbreaking: late 2008
Feedstock: corn
Capacity: 25 MMgy
Design/build team: undeclared
Synopsis: KEEP will pursue financing once it has officially selected a design/build team. Plant owners also seek approximately $200,000 in grants or low-interest loans.

Sunnyside Ethanol LLC
Location: Curwensville, Pennsylvania
Target groundbreaking: third quarter 2008
Feedstock: corn
Capacity: 80 MMgy
Design/build team: Delta-T Corp.
Synopsis: Consus Ethanol LLC spokesman Brian Wallace acknowledges the company is having difficulty raising funds but says it has made significant progress.

SOUTH ATLANTIC

Chesapeake Renewable Energy LLC
Location: Sumerset County, Maryland
Target groundbreaking: summer 2008
Feedstock: corn
Capacity: 55 MMgy
Design/build team: Praj Industries Ltd.
Synopsis: Project Manager Mack Shelor says this project has the potential to be profitable because of its unique configuration. The site is in an agricultural area in Maryland, where the distillers grains will have a ready market among several large poultry producers. The facility will use wood waste to generate power and steam. The combined-heat-and-power plant will generate 19.8 megawatts of electricity, most of which will be consumed on-site, Shelor says, with approximately eight megawatts to be fed into the local power grid. The waste heat and excess electricity will also be used to power an on-site, 30-acre greenhouse. The land has been purchased, the rezoning is approved, permits have been submitted, and the financing is presently being arranged, according to Shelor.

Bleckley County Biorefinery
Location: Bleckley County, Georgia
Target groundbreaking: fourth quarter 2008
Feedstock: wood waste/MSW
Capacity: 20 MMgy
Design/build team: undeclared
Synopsis: The land is acquired, and the permitting process has begun for this cellulosic ethanol project under development by Allied Energy Services LLC, says Warren Oldham, vice president of Allied. Other partners in the project are Allied’s parent and utility management company Cobb Energy Inc. and Integrated Environmental Technologies LLC. The facility will use a thermochemical process to convert the wood and MSW to fuel.

Georgia Alternative Energy Co-op
Location: Turner County, Georgia
Target groundbreaking: late 2008
Feedstock: corn
Capacity: 50 MMgy
Design/build: Delta-T Corp.
Synopsis: This farmer cooperative, formed in August 2006, has 234 members who will be tapped in the project’s coming equity drive. Co-op Director and Project Manager Alan Whitehead says the county zoning is complete, and the project is presently in the permitting stage.

Florida Power and Light Group
Location: central Florida
Target groundbreaking: late 2008
Feedstock: citrus waste
Capacity: 4 MMgy
Design/build team: Citrus Energy LLC
Synopsis: Citrus Energy will use its enzymatic hydrolysis process to convert citrus waste into cellulosic ethanol at a plant to be owned by Florida Power and Light Group. The ethanol plant will utilize waste from a citrus processing facility, says Dave Stewart, chief executive officer of Citrus Energy. Developers are visiting with citrus processors in central Florida and have met with state officials to discuss permitting. Once the final location is determined, the permitting process will begin, Stewart says. Financing is in place.

Gulf Coast Energy of Walton LLC
Location: Mossy Head, Florida
Target groundbreaking: summer 2008
Feedstock: wood waste
Capacity: 20 MMgy
Design/build team: undeclared
Synopsis: Gulf Coast Energy Inc. has three similar cellulosic ethanol plants in development, including this facility, one in Alabama and a third at an undisclosed location. At press time, the agreement with the technology provider was nearly complete. This plant, which will use biomass gasification and Fischer-Tropsch technology, can be expanded to 60 MMgy, says Scott Hazen, executive vice president of engineering for Gulf Coast Energy. The facility will include a biodiesel plant. In addition to wood waste, other cellulosic feedstocks will be evaluated in the future. This winter, the Florida project received a $7 million Farm to Fuel Grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Highlands EnviroFuels LLC
Location: Highland County, Florida
Target groundbreaking: mid-2009

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