Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

State mill lands $30 million grant for biofuel production

Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. - The NewPage Corp. paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids has received a four-year, $30 million federal grant to produce diesel fuel from wood waste, but another Wisconsin mill lost out in the most recent granting round, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

NewPage Corp's Wisconsin Rapids mill is one of four projects to receive a total of $114 million in U.S. Department of Energy grants designed to promote alternative energy production.

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