国外生物乙醇开发最新进展

世界乙醇植物需求强劲

The  telephones  at  the  headquarters  for  Fagen  Inc.  in  Granite  Falls  ring  with  calls  from  all  over  the  country  and  increasingly,  from  overseas.

Ron  Fagen,  president  and  founder  of  one  of  America’s  leading  construction  and  design  companies  for  ethanol  plants,  said  he  is  receiving  an  increasing  number  of  inquiries  from  overseas  countries  interested  in  building  ethanol  plants  of  their  own.

Australia,  England,  Denmark,  Switzerland,  China  and  Russia  are  among  the  countries  where  the  calls  have  come.

Fagen  said  his  company  is  too  busy  meeting  the  demand  for  ethanol  plants  in  the  U.S.  to  take  on  the  foreign  projects.

At  this  time  next  year,  his  company  will  have  no  fewer  than  34  ethanol  plants  under  construction  simultaneously  in  the  country,  he  said.

The  34th  of  those  plants  is  planned  for  Iowa,  and  its  completion  will  represent  a  major  milestone.  Iowa  will  become  a  net  exporter  of  energy  when  the  plant  goes  on  line,  he  said.

The  local  entrepreneur  hosted  Sen.  Norm  Coleman  on  his  visit  to  Granite  Falls  on  Tuesday.  He  praised  the  senator’s  support  for  ethanol  and  said  that  the  corn-based  fuel  is  increasingly  finding  a  supportive  audience  in  Washington  thanks  to  those  efforts.

Fagen  is  confident  that  the  economics  created  by  today’s  oil  prices  already  assure  continued  growth  for  the  ethanol  industry  in  the  U.S.  and  around  the  world.  However,  he  said  E-85  needs  to  keep  its  costs  at  50  cents  per  gallon  below  gasoline  if  it  wants  to  continue  on  its  growth  track.

Fagen  said  that  he  also  believes  federal  support  is  critical  to  building  “momentum”  for  the  ethanol  industry  and  making  it  a  “real”  industry.

Ethanol’s  growth  has  occurred  largely  in  the  country’s  Midwestern  corn  belt.  Iowa,  Minnesota,  North  and  South  Dakota,  Wisconsin,  Indiana  and  Ohio  are  among  the  states  where  his  company  is  finding  the  greatest  interest. (责任编辑：泉水)

搜索

热门标签:

国外生物乙醇开发最新进展