Northwest Renewable Starts Construction on Ethanol Plant in Washington

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). U.S. Ethanol, LLC (Vancouver, Washington) and subsidiary Northwest Renewable, LLC have begun preliminary construction activity on a new fuel ethanol plant that will be located in Longview, Washington. Plans call for the creation of a nameplate 55 million-gallon per year plant that will process 21 million bushels of corn into the renewable fuel. Dirt work and pre-construction activity are expected to take three to four months to complete and plant construction should be in full swing by the spring of 2007.

The plant will be located on a 32-acre site in the Mint Farm Industrial Park, approximately 40 miles north of Portland in Southern Washington on the Columbia River.

Lurgi, Incorporated (Memphis, Tennessee) has been hired to provide design, engineering, equipment procurement and construction management for the project. Construction is expected to take about fourteen to sixteen months to complete and cost around $100 million. Start-up and commissioning of the plant is expected to take place around mid-year 2008.

Biofuels production in Washington is beginning to take shape and Northwest Renewable marks the second biorefinery currently under construction in the state. Imperium Renewables began construction on a huge 100 million-gallon per year biodiesel plant in Aberdeen in the fall of last year and expects to have the plant operational around September or October of this year. Other biorefineries are being planned in Puyallup, Medical Lake and Warden, Washington.

Two projects in the state have been put on hold. GoGreen Industries is holding off on building a 17 million-gallon per year biodiesel plant in Spokane and Nordic Biofuels in Longview has decided not to build an ethanol plant in Longview. Other developers like Pacific Rim Ethanol and Wi Biofuels have cancelled plans to build biorefineries in Moses Lake and Clarkston.

Industrial Info's Ethanol Production Database provides a comprehensive outline of all current development activities in the emerging synthetic fuels market. This database covers 134 ethanol plants currently in operation and 348 plants under development. It also covers 32 operational biodiesel plants and 81 biodiesel plants under development.

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