The POET biorefining facility at Chancellor, South Dakota has reached a production milestone of one billion gallons of ethanol. Matt Merritt with POET says the Chancellor facility is POET’s largest ethanol plant at 110 million gallons of annual production. The facility was able to reach the production milestone in 2016 due to improved efficiency.

The Chancellor plant is in its 14th year of operation and uses more than 100,000 bushels of corn per day, so the economic impact to the area is substantial.

Merritt says they hope to continue growing their production and one way to do that is with higher ethanol blends.

The Chancellor plant is equipped with cutting edge technology that uses green energy gained from solid waste and methane gas from the nearby Sioux Falls city landfill.