Ace Ethanol buys closed Utica ethanol plant
Shareholders of Ace Ethanol, Stanley, voted Friday to approve the purchase of the Utica Energy Ethanol Plant, near Oshkosh, and Utica Industries for $16.5 million. The acquisition will more than...
View ArticleWages for new recruits in the renewables energy sector are increasing fastest
A report released today reveals that wages for recruits in the renewables energy sector are increasing at a faster rate than any other energy sector. The quarterly report of live economic and jobs...
View ArticleGranite Falls ethanol maker buys stake in Heron Lake plant
The plants will remain as separate companies but look to capitalize on “synergies.” Financially strong ethanol producer Granite Falls Energy has acquired a controlling stake in the struggling ethanol...
View ArticlePlainview ethanol plant to resume operations
White Energy has been idle since January White Energy is coming back. The Plainview ethanol plant announced it will resume operations in mid-to-late October after sitting idle about seven months. The...
View ArticleEthanol production benefits farmers’ wallets, officials say
Over the last few years, ethanol plants have sprung up nearly as fast as the crop on which they depend. That’s good new for farmers who grow corn. Ethanol plants tend to offer farmers a better price...
View ArticleLender acquires bankrupt ethanol plant
A federal bankruptcy judge has awarded assets of an ethanol plant in Buffalo Lake to the lender that financed its reopening last year. Production at Purified Renewable Energy ended last March after...
View ArticleCompany plans to make butanol at idled Minnesota ethanol plant
Ohio firm will buy Little Falls ethanol plant Green Biologics to make butanol with facility The Central Minnesota Ethanol Co-op on Wednesday made a deal to allow Green Biologics Inc. to acquire...
View ArticleFairmont ethanol plant owner is blindsided by its lender
But the deal with Green Plains Renewable Energy means that one of Minnesota’s largest ethanol plants could be reopened. A struggling ethanol producer with a plant in Minnesota and another in Nebraska...
View ArticleUtica Ethanol plant resumes operations under new owners
The new owners of the town of Utica ethanol plant have wasted no time reviving production one year after mounting debts and foreclosure forced an end to the previous owner’s operations. Stanley-based...
View ArticleEthanol mills face closures as Obama cuts target
U.S. ethanol companies, producing at the fastest pace in 21 months, expect mill closures and output cuts after President Obama’s administration proposed reducing consumption targets for the first time....
View ArticleBig ethanol plant in Fairmont, Minn., is reopening
The plant, mothballed since September 2012, is reopening after being bought by the nation’s fourth-largest ethanol producer. Minnesota’s second-largest ethanol plant is reopening after a 15-month...
View ArticleUS Solar Energy Employment Increases By 20 Percent
There’s a sunny employment picture in the U.S. solar industry, with an increase of approximately 20 percent more jobs in 2013 over September 2012, according to a new report from The Solar Foundation....
View ArticlePacific Ethanol to Restart Madera, California Plant
Pacific Ethanol to Restart Madera, California Plant Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (PEIX), the leading marketer and producer of low-carbon renewable fuels in the Western United States, announced plans to...
View ArticlePacific Ethanol restarts Madera plant
Pacific Ethanol has restarted its Madera ethanol plant, which has been idle for more than five years, adding 35 jobs in Madera County, company officials announced. The Sacramento-based company idled...
View ArticleVirginia biofuel company to create 79 jobs in Hoke County
The Virginia company that intends to restart the shuttered Clean Burn Fuels ethanol refinery plant in Hoke County will create 79 new jobs while investing $36 million over the next three years in Hoke,...
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