GS AgriFuels, a producer of clean fuels from agriproducts, said Tuesday it will build a 10-million-gallon-per- ear biodiesel plant at the former Miller Brewing plant in Fulton, N.Y., with a subsidiary of Homeland Energy Biofuels.
The biodiesel plant will be New York State’s first commercial-scale facility.According to GS AgriFuels president and CEO, Thomas Scozzafava, commercial biodiesel production is expected to begin by the middle of 2007.
Homeland Energy, a developer of clean, alternative fuel projects, has chosen NextGen Fuel Inc.’s proprietary biodiesel production equipment as the production technology for the project.
In 2005, The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority awarded NextGen Fuel a $250,000 contract to construct a biodiesel production facility in Fulton.
GS Fulton Biodiesel, headquartered in New York, N.Y., plans to use a significant amount of existing brewery site infrastructure, including a building, roads, utilities and some of the existing storage tanks.
As part of the transaction, Scozzafava will become part of GS Fulton Biodiesel’s board of managers.
