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(NewsDakota.com) Construction on a new hybrid bio-refinery plant in the Spiritwood Industrial Park east of Jamestown may happen this summer.

Great River Energy spokeswoman Rachel Retterath says it will be called Dakota Spirit AgEnergy and pending E-P-A certification groundbreaking on the first phase could begin in August.

Retterath says the difference between this bio-refinery and other ethanol plants is that this one will produce ethanol, corn oil and dried distiller’s grain.

She says it will be modeled after the Blue Flint plant near Underwood. The Spiritwood plant would produce about 65 million gallons of ethanol per year and once phase II is completed the plant will produce 10 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year.

Retterath says the first phase of construction would employ some 200 workers for 18 to 24 months. She says the second phase is slated to start in 2014 or 2015. The plant would also use steam as an energy source from the existing Spiritwood plant.