Feedstock: sweet sorghum
Capacity: 20 MMgy
Design/build team: undeclared
Synopsis: U.S. EnviroFuels LLC received a $7 million Farm to Fuel Grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which will be used for the buildings and equipment, according to U.S. EnviroFuels President Bradley Krohn. The company has begun the design and permitting process. U.S. EnviroFuels is also developing a project in Port Sutton, Fla.

Liberty Industries Inc.
Location: Lowry, Florida
Target groundbreaking: first quarter 2009
Feedstock: wood waste/MSW
Capacity: 7 MMgy
Design/build team: Bioengineering Resources Inc.
Synopsis: At press time, company President Sam Hatcher was awaiting final word on site studies for a proposed energy park. One site would be at Hatcher’s family-owned Liberty Chips Corp., which operates a 100-ton-per-hour wood chip operation in Lowry. Another site would be near the Liberty County landfill and water treatment facilities. Hatcher says his vision is to combine several alternative energy projects in an energy park, starting with an ethanol plant that will use gasification and anaerobic digestion technologies. It will also generate five megawatts of electricity. Once the final site is determined, the permitting process will begin. The project received a $4 million Farm to Fuel Grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Port Sutton EnviroFuels LLC
Location: Port Sutton, Florida
Target groundbreaking: mid-2008
Feedstock: corn/milo
Capacity: 44 MMgy
Design/build team: Delta-T Corp.
Synopsis: The Port Sutton project has been in a holding pattern for 16 months due to litigation with another tenant at the port in Tampa, Fla., says Bradley Krohn, president of U.S. EnviroFuels LLC. “We’re making progress on getting it resolved,” he adds. The project is fully permitted, and financing is in place, although final closing hinges on the resolution of the litigation. Krohn says the project may be built in two phases with the ethanol storage and distribution terminal being built first, and the ethanol production facility to follow. U.S. EnviroFuels has begun design work on another sweet sorghum facility in Highland County.

Southeast Renewable Fuels LLC
Location: near Lake Okeechobee, Florida
Target groundbreaking: first quarter 2009
Feedstock: sweet sorghum
Capacity: 20 MMgy
Design/build team: undeclared
Synopsis: The first of three sweet sorghum ethanol plants in the Lake Okeechobee area is in development, according to Chief Executive Officer Aaron Pepper. “We’re hoping to be the first sweet sorghum ethanol plant in Florida or even the United States,” he says. Sites have been procured for the first and second plants. “The first plant will work the bugs out,” he says. “We’ll do the field trials, and once everything is working smoothly, we’ll build the second.” The second and third plants are expected to produce 50 MMgy. Financing is nearly complete for the first plant, Pepper says, and farmers are being recruited to grow sweet sorghum for that project. Losonoco Inc. is helping with project development. In anticipation of potential expanded ethanol capacity, Southeast Renewable Fuels opened an ethanol distribution office at the start of 2008 to serve southern Florida. Pepper says the company is also looking for a port facility to handle domestic and imported ethanol to supply Florida's future renewable fuels market.

CANADA

Growing Power Hairy Hill LLP
Location: Hairy Hill, Alberta
Target groundbreaking: spring 2008
Feedstock: wheat
Capacity: 42 MMly (11 MMgy)
Design/build team: undeclared
Synopsis: Mike Kotelko, general manager of Growing Power Hairy Hill, is one of two brothers who own an Alberta ranch, a feedlot called Highland Feeders Ltd. and a technology company called Highmark Renewables Inc. The feedlot includes an anaerobic digester that has been in operation for three years. The digester will be expanded 40-fold to provide process heat to the ethanol plant, a move that will more than double its current electrical output to 2.4 megawatts. The biogas facility is slated to expand in February 2009, followed by the ethanol plant coming on line in June 2009. Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta-based Providence Grain Group, a producer-owned and -controlled grain company, is a major investor in the integrated biorefinery. PGG will procure the high-starch wheat needed for the plant.

Nipawin Biomass Ethanol New Generation Co-op Ltd.
Location: Nipawin, Saskatchewan
Target groundbreaking: mid-2009
Feedstock: wood waste/flax straw
Capacity: 75 MMly (20 MMgy)
Design/build team: undeclared
Synopsis: Approximately 500,000 tons of forestry residues such as logging slash, mill wastes (bark), shavings and sawdust, and agricultural wastes such as hay and straw will be generated from the Nipawin area each year. This ethanol facility will require 200,000 dry tons of feedstock per year, 25 percent of which will come from flax straw and 75 percent from wood waste. After eight years of development and looking at nearly 20 catalysts, the company enlisted the help of Fulcrum BioEnergy to design a process using the co-op’s technology. The facility will create 60 to 70 full-time and plant-related jobs.

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