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Energy
Missouri is involved in a wide range of energy-related operations. From the mining and exploration of traditional fuels to the technology and plants that help harness it to the alternative fuels that some day look to replace it, Missouri has seen companies succeed in nearly every aspect of energy production.
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The Energy Cluster Defined
Macon County’s Strengths for Energy include:
Alternative Energy
Alternative fuel resources from corn (ethanol) and soybean oil (biodiesel) are growing industries in Missouri. The demand for biofuels is driven in part by the Renewable Fuels Standard, which required that Missouri gasoline contain at least 10 percent ethanol by 2008. Missouri is expected to be a major exporter of biofuels far into the future.
Mining and Exploration
Mining and Exploration represent an important function within the energy cluster. Coal mining and crude oil exploration are industries found in Missouri. Companies such as Peabody are involved in mining coal. However, Missouri currently has limited traditional energy resources, which places limits on the expansion of these companies.
Macon County is home to:
| POET Ethanol |
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660-385-2789
POET uses the creativity that comes from common sense to deliver a new bounty of American energy from the eternal bounty of the American Heartland.
With hard work, imagination and discipline, the people of POET have replaced hundreds of millions of barrels of imported oil with clean, renewable domestic energy while bringing hundreds of millions of dollars back to the American economy.
Today, POET has a network of 26 plants in seven states producing over one billion gallons of ethanol annually. More important than volume, though, is the efficiency in which products are produced. POET delivers a turn-key development, design, engineering, construction, management and marketing services for plant network.
POET facilities are the most successful and profitable in the industry. The technologies - developed and refined with years of hard work and collaboration with leaders in biochemistry and animal nutrition - reap more value from a bushel of corn than anyone.