UT expands switchgrass incentive program

Biomass Magazine July 2009
By Lisa Gibson
Posted June 23, 2009, at 3:52 p.m. CST

Thirty-eight eastern Tennessee farmers, up 26 from last year, will plant a total of 1,901 acres of switchgrass this year, the second season of the University of Tennessee’s switchgrass farmer incentive program.

The switchgrass will be used to produce cellulosic ethanol at the state’s first demonstration-scale biorefinery in Vonore in Monroe County, expected to be operational late this year. UT partnered with DuPont-Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC for the pilot plant.

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