Tampa Energy, a U.S. based company has plans to invest US$50 million to build a new sugar cane ethanol plant in the Dominican Republic. The ethanol fuel produced would be exported to the United States and mixed with gasoline. The facility is expected to be completed and operational next year, hopefully June, in order to take advantage of the 2008-2009 sugar cane harvest.  Initial production is planned to be 190 million litres per year, with hopes of eventually doubling the output.

Meanwhile, Dominican Ethanol, the country's first project of this type, along with Groups Vicini and Central Romana, have plans to use sugar cane to produce alcohol.