For Ethanol Plants, Two Roads Diverge

The New York Times
January 13, 2009, 9:37 am — Updated: 12:48 pm
By Kate Galbraith

The race to make cellulosic ethanol is heating up just as some corn-ethanol plants are shutting down.

On Monday POET, a privately held company that is the country’s largest ethanol producer, announced details of an $8 million pilot cellulosic-ethanol plant in the company’s home state of South Dakota, which started production in December.

The company said that it hopes to start production from a commercial-scale cellulosic plant in 2011.

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