Construction of US hybrid biomass plant on schedule

Construction of Abengoa Bioenergy’s biomass-fed hybrid cellulosic ethanol and power plant is on schedule in southwest Kansas with a commercial start date targeted for the fourth quarter of 2013, a company official tells Recharge.

Christopher Stanlee, an executive vice president at Abengoa’s US subsidiary, says 100 construction workers are at the site in Hugoton, a small town near the Kansas-Oklahoma border, and the number will increase to about 300 this summer.

Abengoa, based in Madrid, Spain, received a $133m loan guarantee from the US Energy Department (DOE) to help finance the project, which is expected to cost more than $350m.

Plans call for the plant to produce 25 million gallons of ethanol a year and 20MW of electricity. It was originally scheduled to generate 75MW of power…

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