BP Biofuels confirms 2012 groundbreaking for US cellulosic ethanol project

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane June 24, 2011

In Louisiana, BP Biofuels Americas president Sue Ellerbusch said that the company’s 36 million gallon Highlands County (Florida) cellulosic ethanol project will break ground “early next year” and will open in 2013.

“Total investment in the facility and agricultural feedstock operation will be in excess of $400 million,” she noted, adding that the project will be based on a 20,000 acre feedstock farm, and that “experience has shown us that future cellulosic biofuels facilities will take four to five years from land acquisition to production of first ethanol.”

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