Located at the Mount Vernon, Indiana, US, the plant has the capacity to produce around 110 million gallons annually.
The Mount Vernon plant is the 11th corn ethanol plant for the Valero, and uses Delta-T technology, which is similar to the process that is using at Valero’s ethanol plant in Jefferson of Wisconsin.
Valero Renewables plans to begin a restart program and resume production within the next several months that has been down for around two years.
Valero Energy alternative energy and development Martin Parrish said the company is looking forward to hiring employees, restarting the plant and producing ethanol.
"We intend to invest in the Mount Vernon plant to make it competitive with other top-tier ethanol facilities, and we will use the technical expertise we have gained at our other plants to look at ways to improve Mount Vernon’s reliability, production rate and product yields," Parrish added.
Valero, through its subsidiaries, produces and markets transportation fuels, other petrochemical products and power.
