Range Fuels will break ground on the nation’s first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant

Range Fuels will break ground on the nation’s first
commercial cellulosic ethanol plant Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Range Fuels will break ground on the nation’s first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant Tuesday, November 6, 2007 -- please mark your calendar! The groundbreaking event will take place at the plant’s site in Soperton, GA (approximately 155 miles outside of Atlanta in Treutlen County). Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue, as well as other government officials and special interest groups will be on hand to celebrate and address the significance of this special event.

Please let us know if you would be interested in attending this historic event or covering this important national story.

Range Fuels’ Soperton Plant will use wood and wood waste from Georgia’s pine forests and mills as its feedstock and will have the capacity to produce over one hundred million gallons of ethanol per year.

Range Fuels’ technology is low-impact and environmentally friendly in its approach – the Soperton Plant will use a quarter of the average water required by corn-based ethanol plants per gallon of ethanol produced—essential at a time where many of Georgia communities are facing debilitating water shortages.

The new plant is financed in part by a $76 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Energy, and is a strategic component of the Federal government’s wider plan of making cellulosic ethanol cost-competitive with gasoline by 2012.

WHAT: Range Fuels breaks ground on the nation’s first cellulosic ethanol plant

WHEN: Tuesday, November 6, 2007—2:00 p.m. ET

WHERE:      Future site of Range Fuels cellulosic ethanol plant
            111 Range Fuels Drive
            Soperton, Georgia 30457

WHO:    Range Fuels CEO, Mitch Mandich
            Georgia Governor, Sonny Perdue
            Additional national, state and local government officials and special interest groups.

NOTE: Groundbreaking ceremony begins at 2:00 p.m. ET, followed by brief Q&A with press. In addition, Range Fuels' Mitch Mandich will be available for a limited number of interviews following the press event.