Colorado-based Range Fuels Inc. is planning construction of an ethanol plant in Georgia, near Soperton after receiving loan guarantees from the USDA Biorefinery Assistance Program. Production is projected to begin this year, producing biofuel out of pine chips. The biofuel will then be mixed with diesel. Later in the year, the plant will begin producing cellulosic ethanol, [...]
Georgia Power to Delay Plant Mitchell Conversion
With the uncertainty of how future EPA regulations might affect industrial boiler emissions, Georgia Power has decided to delay the biomass conversion of coal-fueled Plant Mitchell in Albany, Ga., until the EPA rules are better defined in April 2010. The anticipated industrial boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology rule, or “IB MACT,” would regulate emissions of hazardous [...]