Naperville part of plan to turn brush into energy sources

Chicago Tribune
By Bob Goldsborough
April 12, 2010

Brush collected by Naperville could be converted into electricity, ethanol and hydrogen under a federally funded pilot program that Naperville's City Council has unanimously signed off on.

Known as a "green fuels depot demonstration project," the program, which U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., is sponsoring, would place brush that the city picks up each spring into a reactor that would create energy sources. The reactor would be located at a depot at a city site just south of the Springbrook Water Reclamation Facility on Plainfield-Naperville Road.

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