Why Ethanol?

Good for the Soil

This isn’t your father’s corn field! Today over 55% of corn growers use conservation tillage, 77% use crop residue management. Only 23% use a plow to work their fields. This has reduced soil loss by 90%!

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Company History

Renew Energy was started in 2003 by a group of investors that includes Wisconsin’s largest grain dealers, several of the area’s largest farmers, and the owners of a transportation company. Upon completion of the 40 million gallon per year Utica plant just outside of Oshkosh, Renew became the 73rd ethanol plant operating in the United States. Renew quickly utilized technology developed on site to create a more efficient plant, now producing over 55 million gallons per year.

In 2006, Renew began development at Jefferson of the largest dry milling ethanol plant in the world. Renew purchased from Cargill a facility that had been the largest malting plant in the world. Again utilizing one of a kind new technology, Renew is combining the existing resources of the malting plant with a newly constructed 130 million gallon per year ethanol plant. The plant will consume 20% less natural gas than the industry standard and will emit less air emissions than an older plant half this size.

As a dry mill fractionation plant, Renew will produce a series of unqiue feed, food and fuel products, food grade CO2, corn bran, corn meal, food grade corn oil, and its trademarked products Renew MealTM, which will revolutionize the distillers grain marketplace.

An added benefit of locating at the malting plan is the ability to “kiln-cure” the Renew Meal to increase quality, consistency, and flowability.