date:Jan 06, 2013
Sweetwater Energy Inc., a closely held company that extracts fermentable sugars from biomass, agreed to supply a standard corn-ethanol plant in Wisconsin that plans to produce renewable fuel from non-food crops.
The deal with Ace Ethanol LLC is worth as much as $100 million over 16 years and the plant expects to shift as much as 7 percent of its 46 million-gallon (174 million-liter) annual production capacity away from corn, Rochester, New York-based Sweetwater said today in an e-mailed stateme