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September 28, 2007 – Vol. 12 No.27 Mascoma Corporation and the University of Tennessee to Build Nation’s First Switchgrass Cellulosic Ethanol Plant. The five million gallon per year cellulosic biorefinery will be located in Monroe County, Tennessee and will be operational in 2009. Initial research conducted by the University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture indicates that Tennessee is capable of generating over one billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass alone. The business partnership and plans for the facility are a result of Tennessee Governor Bredesen’s Biofuels Initiative, a research and business model designed to reduce dependence on foreign oil and provide significant economic and environmental benefits for Tennessee’s farmers and communities. It includes a $40 million investment in facility construction and $27 million for research and development activities, including incentives for farmers to grow switchgrass funded by the State and The University of Tennessee. The Tennessee project is Mascoma’s third cellulosic biorefinery. A multi-feedstock demonstration-scale biorefinery is being developed in Rome, New York. In the State of Michigan. The company is also building one of the nation’s first commercial scale biorefineries using wood as a feedstock. Mascoma Corporation, of Cambridge, Massachusetts is a developer of advanced low-carbon energy biotechnology to produces biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass using proprietary microorganisms and enzymes (9/28/07)
Links: Mascoma Corporation University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture http://agriculture.tennessee.edu University of Tennessee Office of Bioenergy Programs
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