Conestoga Energy Plans Wednesday Groundbreaking for a 55 Million-Gallon Fuel Ethanol Plant in Kansas

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Reported by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Privately held Conestoga Energy Partners (Liberal, Kansas) is planning to hold a ground breaking ceremony Wednesday, May 24, 2006, for a new 55 million-gallon per year fuel ethanol plant that will be built near an existing grain elevator operated by WoodRiver Grain in Garden City, Kansas. Plans are to construct a $71 million plant that will convert 21 million bushels per year of corn into ethanol and distillers dried grains. The company has selected leading ethanol plant builder ICM, Incorporated (Colwich, Kansas) as its design-build firm. Site grading and prep work has already started to clear the ground for the ceremony.

Actual pouring of concrete and construction activity is scheduled to start in July 2006, and construction is expected to take twelve to fourteen months to complete. The site is located off U.S. Highway 50, about 50 miles northwest of Dodge City.

The company is also eying a second site in Seward County for a 110 million-gallon per year ethanol plant that is scheduled to break ground in September of this year, once funding is in place.

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