Sierra Biofuels Begins Construction on Waste-to-Ethanol Plant in Nevada

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Privately held Fulcrum Bioenergy Incorporated (Pleasanton, California) has begun construction on the company's Sierra Biofuels LLC (McCarran, Nevada) plant, just east of Reno in Storey County, in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center.

The plant will convert 90,000 tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) into 10.5 million gallons of ethanol per year. The cellulosic-based plant will use the company's proven thermochemical process for the conversion of MSW to ethanol.

This month, the company awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract to the Aliso Viejo, California office of Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR) (Irving, Texas), and site work for the estimated $120 million plant is under way. Construction is expected to be completed by early 2012.

The company has long-term MSW feedstock contracts in place and ultimately wants to build multiple projects across the United States, with the goal of being able to produce 1 billion gallons per year of fuel ethanol from MSW.

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