1st Japanese rice ethanol plant to start in 2009
Reuters via Planet Ark Japan's first commercial plant to produce ethanol for cars to reach full capacity by March 2009.
Japan's first commercial plant to produce ethanol for cars from locally grown rice will reach full capacity of 1,000 kilolitres a year by March 2009, a few months behind schedule, a senior manager said on Friday
The project in Niigata, central Japan, for which the Japanese government is paying half the plant construction cost of 1.6 billion yen (US$15 million), is one of Japan's three such government-backed commercial production schemes
