Sioux River Ethanol Starts Construction of South Dakota's Eleventh Fuel Ethanol Plant

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). The Farmer owned cooperative of Sioux River Ethanol LLC (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) has begun construction of South Dakota's eleventh fuel ethanol plant bringing the states total to three facilities currently under construction.

Construction began this week under the supervision of technology provider and plant constructor Broin & Associates (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) on a $58 million corn based 45 million gallon per year ethanol plant. The plant, located about 45 miles northwest of Hudson near the South Dakota and Iowa border in the southeast corner of the state, will turn some 16 million bushels of locally grown corn into the renewable fuel.

Once completed in July of 2004, the facility will also have the capability of producing 135,000 tons per year of ethanol production by-product distillers dried grains and solubles (DDGS). The operations and management arm of Broin, Broin Management LLC (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) will run the facility once it becomes operational.

Sioux River marks the third ethanol plant to begin construction in the state in the last 12 months. Glacial Lakes Energy began construction of a 45 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Watertown in July of last year and VeraSun Energy kicked off a huge 100 million gallon per year plant in Aurora back in February.

Jay Brunson, Industrialinfo.com's Syn Fuels Manager adds, "Once the additional 190 million gallons per year of capacity come on line by the third quarter of 2004, South Dakota will have eleven fuel ethanol plants capable of producing over 415 million gallons per year towards the U.S. ethanol production effort." South Dakota also has three other new plants under development in the state.