Abengoa Bioenergy Begins Construction on 88 Million Gallon per Year Fuel Ethanol Plant in Nebraska

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation (Saint Louis, Missouri) and Abengoa Bioenergy of Ravenna (Ravenna, Nebraska), both subsidiaries of Abengoa S.A. (Seville, Spain), have broken ground on a new $100 million fuel ethanol plant near Ravenna, Nebraska. Plans call for the creation of a nameplate 88 million gallons per year fuel ethanol plant that will convert about 32 million bushels of corn annually into the renewable fuel. The plant will be the largest dry mill ethanol plant in the state, producing an estimated 285,000 tons per year of dried distiller’s grains, a by-product of ethanol production used as a feed additive.

The site, previously known as Nordic Biofuels of Ravenna, L.L.C., was acquired by Abengoa back in April of 2004, and has been home to a pilot plant operation since the middle of last year. The pilot plant will be converted to a commercial scale operation that is expected to be online by early 2007.

The official groundbreaking ceremony took place Friday, December 9, 2005, at the plant site, which is located roughly 1.5 miles east of Ravenna off 370th Road East.

Once the facility becomes operational, it’s expected to create 50 full-time jobs and be the company’s second location in Nebraska joining a 70 million gallon per year plant in York that went into operation in 1995.

Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation operates ethanol facilities in Colwich, Kansas; Portales, New Mexico; and York, Nebraska. Its parent company, Abengoa Bioenergy S.A., is the largest ethanol producer in Europe and the fifth largest producer in the United States. Upon completion of the Ravenna facility, Abengoa Bioenergy will be able to produce 203 million gallons of ethanol in the U.S. each year, in addition to its current capacity of 85 million gallons in Spain, and an additional 53 million gallons facility expected to be complete in Spain within the next few months.

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