By Brandon Michael
On a recent family vacation, I saw that a pretty good chunk of America is biting off a pretty big chunk of renewable energy. From wind and solar power, to alternative fuels like biodiesel - diversifying our sources of energy seems to be the wave of the future. Luckily, Louisiana seems to be on board with the next stage of evolution in the energy world. We've already started to get electricity from Oklahoma wind farms in Caddo Parish via SWEPCO - but the next step includes cooking up a little home-grown alternative fuel ourselves, Louisiana style.
According to Business Report, yet another company is looking at our fair state as the perfect location of of a brand-new, eco-friendly, bio-fuel plant. Delta Biofuel is investigating a now idle refinery in Iberia Parish into a bio-diesel plant capable of pumping out thousands of gallons of precious fuel every day using a very Louisiana ingredient. The plant will reportedly use sugarcane waste from surrounding farms as the basis for the environmentally-friendly fuel.