List of South Dakota Ethanol Plants

Dakota Ethanol

• Dakota Ethanol has a plant in Wentworth producing 50 million gallons of ethanol per year. The Wentworth plant produces just under 5 percent of South Dakota's ethanol.

Glacial Lakes Energy

• Glacial Lakes Energy has two ethanol plants in South Dakota. Their plant in Watertown produces 100 million gallons of ethanol per year. Their other plant in Mina, SD produces produces 107 million gallons per year. Together the two plants produce about 20 percent of South Dakota's ethanol.

Heartland Grain Fuels

• Heartland Grain Fuels has two ethanol plants in South Dakota. The plant in Aberdeen produces 50 million gallons per year and the plant in Huron 32 million gallons per year. Heartland Grain Fuels produces 8 percent of South Dakota's annual production.

North Country Ethanol

• North Country Ethanol in Rosholt produces 20 million gallons of ethanol per year, 2 percent of the total for South Dakota.

• NuGen Energy in Marion has an annual production of 110 million gallons, about 11 percent of the statewide total.

POET Biorefining

• POET Biorefining is South Dakota's largest ethanol producer. They have plants in Big Stone, Chancellor, Groton, Hudson, Mitchel and Scotland, which produce a total of 377 million gallons of ethanol a year, 37 percent of South Dakota's annual production.

Redfield Energy

• Redfield Energy in Redfield produces 50 million gallons per year, 5 percent of the total ethanol produced in South Dakota.

Valero Renewable Fuels

• Valero Renewable Fuels in Aurora produces 120 million gallons of ethanol every year, a contribution of 12 percent of the total production in South Dakota.

Heartland Grain Fuels-Huron

• Heartland Grain Fuels is adding an additional 33 million gallons of capacity to their plant in Huron. This will bring their Huron operation to 65 million gallons annually and raise South Dakota ethanol production to 1.049 billion gallons per year.