Since the global recession, many world markets with significant ethanol resources, such as the Americas, have consolidated and numerous dormant plants have been sold – in some cases for pennies on the dollar. Some of these plants have then been converted, enlarged, or started up.
Since new and future corn-based ethanol plants are probably few and far between in the US, many of the future and longer term developments of new ethanol projects will be non-corn-based or ‘cellulosic’.
Brazil has experienced changes as well, with respect to its sugarcane-based sources for carbon dioxide (CO2), and current and future plans for some project changes to cellulosic sources as well.
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