Abengoa Bioenergy expects to start work next month at a site near Hugoton and to have the plant in operation in the fourth quarter of 2013, executive vice-president Christopher Standlee tells Recharge.
It will have nameplate capacity to produce 26 million gallons of ethanol a year. He did not estimate plant cost.
Plans call for the facility to eventually burn 300,000 tonnes a year of agricultural residue such as corn stover and wheat straw, as well as dedicated energy-crops such as switchgrass, to power the plant.
