SUGAR LAND--July 24, 2008--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--VeraSun Energy Corporation (NYSE:VSE) (Brookings, South Dakota), the nation's second-largest ethanol producer, has announced that it has put the company's 12th fuel ethanol plant online in Hankinson, North Dakota. The news comes on the heels of an announcement last month that VeraSun had delayed the opening of two new 110 million-gallon-per-year fuel ethanol plants that were nearing completion in Welcome, Minnesota, and Hartley, Iowa.