VeraSun Energy

producer and marketer of ethanol

VeraSun Energy Corporation, headquartered in Sioux Falls, S.D., is a leading producer and marketer of ethanol and distillers grains and was founded in 2001 with the goal of providing a renewable, home-grown energy source while boosting our domestic rural economy and creating a future that includes renewable energy to help benefit the environment and reduce our nation's demand for foreign oil. VeraSun Energy currently has an annual production capacity potential of approximately 1.64 billion gallons of ethanol and 5 million tons of distillers grains. The company has been credited for a number of “industry firsts” – the first 100 million-gallon-per-year (MMGY) dry-grind production facility, the country's first branded E85, VE85Â; the first ethanol producer to form strategic alliances with Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car to increase awareness and availability of E85, and the first company to place an E85 retail station in the Washington D.C. metro area.