Special Report on Switchgrass; Genera breaks ground on Biomass Innovation Park

Biofuels Digest
August 02, 2010 Jim Lane

In Tennessee, Genera broke ground on the Biomass Innovation Park in Vonore, a 21-acre facility that will provide harvesting, handling, storage, densification, pre-processing and transportation for up to 50,000 tons of switchgrass and other energy crops and feedstocks.

The Park will initially serve more than 6,000 acres of switchgrass growing in nine counties within 50 miles of the Vonore biorefinery, under contract to Genera for cellulosic ethanol feedstocks. The Park will also be the site for a $5 million DOE-funded high-tonnage switchgrass bulk handling system.

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