Ethanol Plant to Use Waste Steam from Coal Electric Plant

Energy Services Bulletin:
Oct. 2005
"Great River Energy gave the phrase, 'waste not, want not,' new meaning when it signed an agreement with Headwaters Incorporated to build a new ethanol plant near the power wholesaler's Coal Creek Station powerplant in Underwood, N.D.
The Blue Flint Ethanol plant will use waste steam from the powerplant to process corn into 50 million gallons of ethanol annually. 'We were looking for a way to use that steam instead of just cooling it down,' said Lyndon Anderson, Great River's North Dakota communications director. 'An ethanol plant was a good way to do that and support alternative fuels at the same time.'"