Tampa Bay to get nation's largest biodiesel plant.

The Tampa Bay area is about to welcome it second biodesel plant, slated to become the largest in the nation. Pensacola-based Agri-Source Fuels LLC is hoping to start production later this year at a former Lykes Bros citrus plant at the Dade City Business Center.

The company says it will be using chicken fat (shipped from Georgia and alabama), cottonseed and palm oil (from South America) as its main primary materials. It plans to produce up to 125 million gallons of biodiesel a year!

That would make it far larger than the existing World Energy Altrnatives plant in Lakeland which currently produces 12 million gallons a year. Another plant is under construction in Kissimmee which will use recycled cooking oil.

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- David Adams