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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Dakota Spirit Ag Energy has received the go ahead from the Public Service Commission to start buying corn.

The ethanol plant site in the energy park near Jamestown will use steam from the new coal-fired plant to help produce the ethanol. It received a Roving Grain Buyer’s license from the Public Service Commission. It’s expected to contract 5 million bushels of corn. Commissioners with the project believe the $430,000 Surety Bond posted by Dakota Spirit might need to be reworked based on how much of a bond a Roving Grain Buyer has to have.

The ethanol plant is expected to be complete by April of 2015 and the company plans to have a permanent storage facility built at Spiritwood.