Jobs: Expected to produce 150 permanent jobs with the ethanol plant alone generating 250 construction jobs and 50 permanent jobs. Tax base: In the first year after the project is completed, the ...

Omaha-based Green Plains Inc., which ranks just ahead of Flint Hills in ethanol production, isn’t planning to seek wind-power generators near its plants but has the California carbon standards in mind ...

Installing renewable energy generators at an ethanol plant is one way to reduce carbon intensity, he said. Methane captured from landfills has a low carbon intensity value; pumping oil from the ground ...