February 11, 2011
Great news! See the article below. Read the press release at http://www.ineosbio.com/76-Press_releases-15.htm . The global British company, INEOS has started construction of its garbage-to-energy plant in Vero Beach Florida. INEOS has license their technology to Powers Energy of America, the company building a plant just across the state line in Schneider, Indiana. Powers Energy has been waiting for the INEOS plant to go forward in Florida and has stated publicly they plan to submit similar plans to Indiana officials. The INEOS U. S. headquarters is in Lisle, Illinois.
These plants will take garbage at the half the cost of a
landfill and sell the resulting fuel creating hundreds of good paying jobs while
paying a host fee to the local community similar to what a landfill pays. It’s
a win, win for any community who gets one of these plants. The technology was
invented by the University of Arkansas and purchased by INEOS which is now
building plants and licensing the technology to other companies.
http://www.ineosbio.com/80-
http://www.biofuelwar.com/2011/02/florida-advanced-biofuels-plant-breaks-ground/
A new commercial scale advance biofuels plant broke ground today in Vero Beach, Florida.
The
$130 million plant is being developed by INEOS New Planet BioEnergy (INPB), a
joint venture between
INEOS Bio and
New Planet Energy. The Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach, Florida,
will convert yard, vegetative and household wastes into cellulosic
ethanol and renewable power for the local community.
“We are excited to celebrate this important milestone, which moves advanced
biofuels a step closer to achieving significant scale, enabling the U.S. to
achieve a leading position in the bioenergy sector,” said Peter Williams,
Chairman of INPB and CEO of INEOS Bio. “As part of our goal of advancing the
biofuels industry, educating people about the benefits of this technology and
creating demand for advanced biofuels, we will continue to license this
world-changing technology to partners across the U.S. and beyond, bringing
secure, renewable fuel and power to communities worldwide.”
When production starts in mid-2012, the Indian River BioEnergy Center will produce eight million gallons of bioethanol and six megawatts (gross) of renewable power, of which approximately two megawatts will be exported to the local community. This renewable electricity will be able to power approximately 1,400 homes. Located at a former citrus processing plant site in Vero Beach, Florida, the BioEnergy Center will provide 380 direct and indirect jobs (including 175 construction jobs) over the next two years and 50 full-time jobs in Indian River County where, current unemployment is at 13.6 percent, the 23rd highest metro area in the nation.
November 8, 2010
Good news for the planned garbage-to-energy plant in Schneider, Indiana which will be built about 17 miles east of Momence and Grant Park or just across the state line from Kankakee County. See press release below from Ineos Bio. They are a large global British Corporation with US headquarters in Lisle, Illinois. They own the garbage-to-ethanol technology which has been licensed to Powers Energy of America, builder of the plant in Schneider, Indiana.
Powers Energy of America has been waiting for the state of Florida to issue all the necessary permits for the planned Ineos Bio garbage-to-ethanol plant in Vero Beach. Those same plans will now be submitted to the state of Indiana for the Schneider, Indiana plant thereby saving time and money for Powers Energy.
Garbage-to-ethanol plants will create hundreds of good paying jobs and reduce our dependency on foreign oil while reducing our dependecy on costly polluting garbage dumps. The plant in Schneider will charge half of what a typical dump operator currently charges to take a ton of garbage.
Press releases
http://www.ineosbio.com/57-Welcome_to_INEOS_Bio.htm
INEOS Bio secures key permits for BioEnergy Center in Florida
October 14th 2010
Vero Beach, Fla. INEOS Bio’s first commercial project in the United States has
secured key permits to build its waste to bioenergy facility in Indian River
County, Florida. The INEOS Bio joint venture has obtained its final air permit
and environmental resource permit from the State of Florida, its wetlands permit
from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and a Final Environmental Assessment (EA)
and Finding of No Significant Impact (Finding) from the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE).
The BioEnergy Center will be developed entirely within the existing footprint of a former agricultural processing facility. The DOE Finding and Environmental Assessment established that the BioEnergy Center would have no adverse impacts with respect to sound, traffic, air quality, water quality or to threatened or endangered species. The assessment also found that no changes to land use, planning or zoning were necessary and will not result in any significant change to the existing visual quality of the site and surrounding area. As part of the extensive assessment, the DOE requested input from various entities including Federal, state, local agencies, elected officials, tribal interests, businesses, organizations and members of the general public.
"We are very pleased that the State of Florida, the Army Corps and the DOE have issued these permits and findings for our project, said David King, President of JV. We have spent considerable effort to design a state of the art facility to not only ensure compliance but also to minimize our impact on the environment."
The BioEnergy Center will generate eight million gallons of third-generation bioethanol each year from renewable biomass including yard, wood, agricultural and vegetative wastes. The Center will also generate six megawatts of renewable electricity. The facility will be the first to use INEOS Bio’s advanced BioEnergy technology, the world’s leading feedstock flexible technology for advanced biofuels. The technology breaks the link between food crops and ethanol production.
At the heart of the INEOS Bio technology is a patented anaerobic fermentation step, through which naturally occurring bacteria convert gases derived directly from biomass into bioethanol.
Unlike other technologies that rely on one primary source of feedstock, the INEOS Bio process can produce bioenergy from numerous feedstocks, including forestry and agricultural waste, sustainable energy crops, construction waste and municipal solid waste. This flexibility allows facilities to be built anywhere that a renewable biomass feedstock is available, providing jobs and locally sourced energy for urban and rural communities. The Indian River facility is scheduled to begin construction in 4th quarter of 2010 and begin production in 2012.
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Contact:
Dan Cummings
(w) 630-857-7165 (c) 630-328-3916
Note to editors
INEOS New Planet BioEnergy (www.inpbioenergy.com) is a joint venture between INEOS Bio and New Planet Energy. In December 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected the INEOS Bio JV to receive a $50 million grant to help lay the foundation for full commercial-scale development of the biorefining industry in the United States. This project is part of the ongoing effort to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, spur the creation of the domestic biorefining industry and provide new clean tech jobs throughout the country.
INEOS Bio (www.ineosbio.com)
is a BioEnergy company working to commercialize and license a highly innovative
thermochemical and bio-chemical technology for the production of renewable
biofuels and renewable power from a wide range of low-cost carbon materials. Its
initial focus is the commercialization of the world’s leading third generation
bioethanol technology process to serve the global renewable transport fuels
market and the renewable energy market.
INEOS (www.ineos.com) is the world’s fourth largest petrochemical company and a leading manufacturer of commodity chemicals, specialty chemicals, biofuels, and oil products. Comprising 15 businesses, with a production network spanning 51 manufacturing facilities in 13 countries (15 sites are located in North America) the company produces more than 40 million tons of petrochemicals, and 20 million tons per annum of crude oil refined products (fuels). INEOS employs over 3000 people in the US, 2000 of which are based at facilities in Texas. INEOS had sales in 2009 of $28.6 billion.
New Planet Energy
(www.newplanetenergy.com) is engaged in the development and implementation
of advanced biofuels and energy projects.