Southwest Illinois Ethanol Plant Construction Funded

The plant proposed by Abengoa Bioenergy of Illinois LLC will receive a $4 million grant through the state's Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, reports BusinessWeek.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich says the plant will be built by the end of next year and employ 60 workers. It also is to convert about 32 million bushels of corn each year into about 88 million gallons of ethanol.

Blagojevich says the site will use one-third less natural gas to produce a gallon of ethanol than the average ethanol plant built just five years ago.

The plant near Madison and just east of St. Louis will also be near the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.

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