Pacific Ethanol to start building fourth plant

“Pacific Ethanol Inc. will start construction within the next month on a 50-million-gallon per year ethanol plant in Calipatria, a small community about 150 miles east of San Diego. Once completed, the Sacramento-based company will have four plants with the goal of making 220 million gallons of fuel ethanol a year by 2008 — or almost a fourth of the 900-million gallons expected to be used this year in the state”