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DAK Renewable Energy and NAI of Sioux Falls Announce Strategic Partnership

September 1, 2009

DAK Renewable Energy and NAI Sioux Falls today announced the creation of a strategic partnership designed to bring extensive ethanol development and management experience (DAK) and professional commercial real estate development services (NAI) to the ethanol and renewable energy industry.

Partnered together, DAK and NAI Sioux Falls will offer a comprehensive list of services tailored to a customers particular situation including property disposition, valuation, financial analysis, lease – purchase analysis, investment analysis, facility management, and/or general consulting services to the ethanol industry.

  • Plant Acquisition and Disposition
  • Buyer and seller representation
  • Business Consulting
  • Financing through debt and equity
  • Financial Re-structuring
  • Investment Sales
  • Plant Management
About NAI Sioux Falls
NAI Sioux Falls is a member of NAI, a worldwide organization of over 325 commercial real estate firms in 55 countries.  NAI is an international provider of commercial real estate services with offices around the globe, servicing some of the world’s largest companies.  Using NAI’s global resources, DAK Renewable Energy and NAI Sioux Falls can market your property far beyond the Midwest and even the United States.  NAI’s access to the best practices and marketing materials of over 5,000 commercial real estate agents will help us serve your needs.


BBI International Inc. CEO Mike Bryan presents David Kolsrud with the High Octane Award.

David Kolsrud Awarded 2008 High Octane Award
Nashville, TN,  June 17, 2008

David Kolsrud, President and CEO of DAK Renewable Energy in Brandon, SD was awarded the annual High Octane Award at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop in Nashville, TN on Tuesday. The High Octane Award honors excellence and long-time achievement in the industry.

Read more about David's award at Ethanol Producer Magazine and The Brandon Valley Challenger.

 

Buffalo Ridge Project on Hold

Due to current economical conditions, the Buffalo Ridge Energy project planned for the Sherman, SD area has been put on hold.

 

DAK Renewable Energy CEO Featured in Business Week
November 13, 2006

"On a still October afternoon, David Kolsrud is gearing up for the harvest. Today, he'll reap some 30 acres of soybeans on his 500-acre farm in Beaver Creek, Minn. His son, Chris, mans a 12-ton combine, a mechanized harvester that sweeps up whole plants and shoots out a steady stream of beans. This evening, Kolsrud will head off to a grain elevator over the border in South Dakota to deliver 1,100 bushels of them.

As if all this weren't enough to manage, the 58-year-old Kolsrud also runs a burgeoning energy business. Steering his John Deere tractor with one hand and clutching a cell phone in the other, he discusses his stake in a new biodiesel plant in Delaware. Earlier today, Kolsrud played host to a group of Canadian bankers and business developers at a local ethanol plant he co-owns with 220 area farmers. Now there are follow-up discussions, and he's consulting on potential projects in Saskatchewan..."

Read Harvesting Green Power By Adrienne Carter, with Adam Aston in New York on BusinessWeek.com.