Mid-Kansas Electric to buy power from Abengoa Bioenergy
In Kansas, a combined cellulosic ethanol and power refinery comes one step closer to construction thanks to the largest European producer of ethanol. Based in Spain, Abengoa Bioenergy, also a large producer of ethanol in the US, has signed an agreement regarding a proposal between these two plants.
Mid-Kansas Electric is a collection of five rural electric companies. It has agreed to purchase electricity from a 75MW power plant that is located beside the cellulosic ethanol facility, in Kansas.
The cellulosic ethanol plant will produce around 15Mgy, using second-generation feedstocks such as corn stalks, wheat straw and switchgrass.
President and chief executive officer of Abengoa Javier Salgado Leirado said, ‘As an international energy company we believe this project is an important part of our continual growth in bioenergy.’
With $13 million (€9.3 million) of biomass to be purchased from local farmers every year, the biomass will also be used to generate power.
‘This power purchase agreement will generate (power) while benefitting area farmers,’ said the president and chief executive of Mid-Kansas Electric, L. Earl Watkins Junior.
With construction to begin later this year, the refinery will be in full operation by 2012 and is thought to employ 90 full-time staff.
Mid-Kansas Electric is a collection of five rural electric companies. It has agreed to purchase electricity from a 75MW power plant that is located beside the cellulosic ethanol facility, in Kansas.
The cellulosic ethanol plant will produce around 15Mgy, using second-generation feedstocks such as corn stalks, wheat straw and switchgrass.
President and chief executive officer of Abengoa Javier Salgado Leirado said, ‘As an international energy company we believe this project is an important part of our continual growth in bioenergy.’
With $13 million (€9.3 million) of biomass to be purchased from local farmers every year, the biomass will also be used to generate power.
‘This power purchase agreement will generate (power) while benefitting area farmers,’ said the president and chief executive of Mid-Kansas Electric, L. Earl Watkins Junior.
With construction to begin later this year, the refinery will be in full operation by 2012 and is thought to employ 90 full-time staff.
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