Greenfield biodiesel plant receives state grant

The Northeast biodiesel plant has received a $540,000 (€397,000) grant from the state Department of Energy Resources.

Construction of the $3.5 million plant began ten years ago and is now nearing completion.

With a further $350,000 of investment, Lynn Benander, president of Co-op Power Energy Cooperative, expects construction of the cooking-grease-to-diesel-fuel factory to be reached by the end of the summer, opening by mid-September.

The facility, with an initial capacity of producing 1.75 million gallons of biodiesel a year, or 5,000 gallons a day, should be able to add a second processor within a year, to reach a total capacity of 3.5 million gallons a year.