Waste powered ethanol plant

Yesterday, I was at POET Biorefining - Chancellor, an ethanol production facility located about 30 miles from POET's corporate headquarters in Sioux Falls, S.D. We were there to announce the installation of a solid waste fuel boiler that will replace half of the expanded plant's natural gas usage with power from burning waste wood. The installation is part of an expansion that will double the plant's ethanol production capacity to 100 million gallons per year.

(waste wood that will be used as a power source at POET Biorefining - Chancellor).

There was a substantial amount of press coverage and we'll post links to all on our web site, but I thought I'd mention a few here. Two local TV news stations attended the event and posted the video coverage on their web sites: KSFY and KTIV. The story was also picked up by Biopact, a biofuels blog that I've been reading for years. There are photos of the speakers on Flickr and speeches will be posted on POET TV soon.