POET Drops Annual Water Use by 770 Million Gallons Since 2009

Biofuels Journal
Date Posted: December 8, 2011

Sioux Falls—POET is more than 75 percent of the way to achieving the water reduction goal the company set under the environmental initiative “Ingreenuity.”

With startup of the proprietary Total Water Recovery system at its 18th ethanol production facility, POET Biorefining – Chancellor (S.D.), POET has now reduced water use by more than 770 million gallons per year over 2009 numbers.

The goal under Ingreenuity is to reduce water use by 1 billion gallons annually by 2015.

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