Grease Is The Word In Coachella Valley California

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The following is an advisory by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Southern States Power Company Incorporated (Ontario, Ca) (OTCBB: SSPC) has successfully begun operations of a pilot scale biodiesel plant in Coachella, California that will produce diesel fuel from cooking grease.

Southern States teamed up with Imperial Western Products (Coachella, Ca), a spent vegetable oil collection and processing company, to provide recycled cooking grease feedstock thru its alliances with used fry oil haulers and restaurants. Yellow cooking grease and virgin vegetable oils are the base feedstock for biodiesel production.

The five million gallon per year prototype biodiesel plant originally began operation back in October of 2001 and had been in the works for over a year. It is located roughly 100 miles west of Los Angeles in Coachella, California.

Jay Brunson, Manager of Industrialinfo.com's Synthetic Fuels department, adds, This is the first permanent biodiesel plant on the West Coast. If the pilot plant goes well, Southern States is looking to construct four additional 20-30 million gallon per year commercial scale continuous flow biodiesel plants in the United States between now and 2005.

Biodiesel (methyl esters) is a cleaner-burning diesel replacement fuel made from natural, renewable sources such as new and used vegetable oils and animal fats. Like petroleum diesel, biodiesel operates in combustion-ignition engines. 20% biodiesel blends (B-20) mixed with petroleum diesel fuels can be used in nearly all diesel equipment.

Industrial Information Resources has developed an exclusive real-time database for the synthetic fuels industry. The Ethanol Production Package (http://www.industrialinfo.com/esemdethanolpp.htm) provides a comprehensive outline of all current development activities in the emerging synthetic fuels market place. This database covers 60 ethanol plants currently in operation and 69 plants under development. It also covers 9 biodiesel plants and 7 plants underdevelopment.