(Emmetsburg)– A South Dakota company that’s building a biorefinery in northwest Iowa will receive 80 million dollars from the U-S Energy Department.
The Broin Company’s 200 million dollar project in Emmetsburg will make fuel from corn cobs and corn kernels.
The plant is expected to produce more ethanol from corn, while consuming less water and using fewer fossil fuels than what is needed to operate a corn-to-ethanol plant.
The Emmetsburg plant is one of six projects to be awarded federal grants for the next wave of ethanol.
Iowa currently is the nation’s leading producer of ethanol and soybean-based biodiesel.
In addition to it’s Emmetsburg plant, Broin also owns an ethanol plant in Ashton, along with 16 others in five states.
(Story from the Associated Press.).
