Sweden welcomes waste-based ethanol production plant

St1 Biofuels Oy, a Finnish energy group, will send an Etanolix plant to north European Oil Trade Oy in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The Etanolix plant will produce waste-based bioethanol for transport fuel, using feedstocks such as biowaste and process residue.

St1's plant, which is currently under construction, will have a bioethanol annual production capacity of 5 million litres.

This project is the first Life+ programme, under the European Commission to build and integrate an ethanol production plant that produces waste- and residue-based ethanol on a continuous basis.

Production will start in early 2015.