Pacific Ethanol Schedules Grand Opening Event This Week for Oregon’s First Ethanol Plant

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Investor-owned Pacific Ethanol Incorporated (NYSE:PEIX ) (Sacramento, California) now has Oregon’s first commercial scale fuel ethanol plant up and running and is planning a grand opening event October 5, 2007. The opening is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. (PST) at the plant site at the Port of Morrow in Boardman on 71335 Rail Loop Drive.

Construction of the 40 million-gallon-per-year plant began in June 2006, and the plant has been running above designed capacity for more than a week now. The plant utilizes Delta-T Corporation’s (Williamsburg, Virginia) licensed ethanol process technology and was designed by Ford, Bacon & Davis Incorporated (Monroe, Louisiana). Parsons RCI Construction (Sumner, Washington) acted as the general contractor for the project, and construction took 14 months to complete.

The plant will process more than 15 million bushels of corn annually to produce the renewable fuel, and 350,000 tons of wet distiller’s grains, a by-product of ethanol production, will also be generated at the site.

Cost estimates to build the plant were in the $65 million range.

Ethanol plant development in Washington State has been slow; however, more projects are in the works for the Evergreen State. Additional ethanol plant projects are planned in Clatskanie, Ontario and Stanfield, along with an additional project in Boardman.

Industrial Info's Ethanol Production Database provides a comprehensive outline of all current development activities in the emerging synthetic fuels market. This database covers 124 ethanol plants in operation and 504 plants under development. It also covers 68 operational biodiesel plants and 205 biodiesel plants under development.

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