DeGrande proposes $30 million sweet sorghum ethanol project in Florida

In Florida, DeGrande BioFuels has proposed a $30 million project in Flagler County to produce ethanol from sweet sorghum. The company said that 10,000 acres of the crop would be needed to support the proposed facility, and that the sandy soil of Florida was ideal for cultivating multiple crops per year. The company’s CO said that the fact that sweet sorghum was not a traded commodity would shield it from speculators driving up the price of feedstocks and making the plant economically unviable.

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