In Hawaii, Pacific West Energy said that it had reached an agreement with Kaua’i Island Utility Co-op critical to its development of a planned 15 Mgy sugar ethanol and 30 MW power facility. Pacific West, which lost landowner and sugar cane planter Gay & Robinson as a project partner this fall, is proceeding to raise $125 million for the first sugarcane ethanol plant in the US. Numerous employees from the Gay & Robinson sugar cane plantation are expected to transfer over to the new project, which would lease land from G&R, which previously said it will cease sugar harvesting in 2010.
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