Spiritwood, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) – The ground-breaking ceremony was held Friday (Aug 9) for the $150 million Great River Energy’s Dakota Spirit AgEnergy plant at Spiritwood.   The program, recorded by CSi TV 10 – The Replay Channel, is available online below.

     


Fast forward to view remarks by:

ND Governor Jack Dalrymple

US Senator John Hoeven

US Senator Heidi Heitkamp

Congressman Kevin Cramer

ND Ag Commissioner Doug Goehring

ND PSC Commissioner Julie Fedorchak

ND State Director RUS Jasper Schneider

Commissioner Mark Klose, Mayor Katie Anderson, JSDC Board President Gary Riffee

GRE:  President & CEO David Saggau and Board Chair Mike Thorson

The “Ground Breaking”

Production is slated to begin in January 2015. The plant will employ about 36 people and will use about 23 million bushels of corn to produce about 65 million gallons of the alternative fuel each year.

The plant is to use excess steam power from Great River Energy’s Spiritwood Station. The combined heat and coal-fired power plant currently is idled due to lack of demand for electricity in Minnesota but is scheduled to come online in January 2015.

Speaking were Governor Jack Dalrymple along with U.S. Senator, John Hoeven, U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp and Congressman Kevin Cramer.

In addition to the groundbreaking ceremony, an open house was held featuring project partner exhibits, along with tours of the Spiritwood Station, followed by a picnic lunch.