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Hanford OKs ethanol plant
HANFORD December 13, 2007 7:55am 
• Great Valley Ethanol to build 63 Million gallon plant • Could be online in 2009 One of the Central Valley’s largest ethanol plants has been approved for an industrial park in Hanford by that city’s planning commission.
The facility, with a capacity of 63 million gallons of ethanol a year, will be built and operated by Great Valley Ethanol LLC of Bakersfield on a 112-acre site in Kings Industrial Park.
When in full operation, it will employ more than 40 workers.
Construction on the plant is expected to start next spring and go online in by the fall of 2009.
Ethanol plants in the Central Valley are already online in Madera (Pacific Ethanol, 35 million gallons) and Goshen (Phoenix Biofuels, 25 million gallons) and others are under construction in Keyes (Cilion, 50 million gallons), and Stockton (Pacific Ethanol, 50 million gallons).
Still others are in the permitting process for Bakersfield and Wasco.
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