Alternative fuel firm Southridge Enterprises has announced that it has acquired an option to purchase land for an ethanol plant near Dallas, Texas.
Southridge said that is evaluating numerous site location criteria to determine whether the proposed site is suitable for the construction and operation of a 50 million gallon per year ethanol plant.
The proposed plant near Dallas would be a natural gas-fired, dry-grind ethanol facility. Southridge stated that a plant of this size typically consumes approximately 18 million bushels of corn and produces 160,000 tons of dried distillers grains annually.
This will reportedly bring the company’s total expected ethanol production capacity to 80 million gallons of ethanol per year, through three facilities.