New Alternative-Energy Plant Could Create 150 Jobs in Indian River County
by Henry A. Stephens (TCPalm.com) …“Our project is a brand-new opportunity with new technology,” Tex Carter, vice president and chairman of INEOS New Planet BioEnergy LLC, said Thursday. “We’re turning garbage into ethanol.”
…The company has been discussing buying and converting Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc.’s 71-acre former grapefruit-processing plant, southwest of Oslo Road and 74th Avenue and north of the landfill.
Carter said the demonstration ethanol-processing plant, expected to convert vegetation waste into 8 million gallons a year of fuel-grade ethanol, could provide 150 construction jobs during the next two years and 40 to 50 full-time jobs.
The U.S. Department of Energy in December awarded a $50 million grant to INEOS New Planet to help build the plant. READ MORE