NextEnergy helps lure wood-to-fuel plant to MI

NextEnergy worked with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to help lure a wood-to-fuel plant to the state.

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Massachusetts-based Mascoma Corporation will build a cellulosic ethanol plant in Michigan that will convert wood to fuel. Earlier in the year, Detroit-based NextEnergy and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation convened a cellulosic biofuels working group that targeted Mascoma as the best candidate to generate renewable fuel from forestry resources here. Mascoma is currently selecting a site, which will determine the amount of state incentives MEDC allocates the company.

Dan Radomski, NextEnergy's director of market development, says the cellulosic biofuels working group was an important one to form because "alternative energy is pretty broad. Cellulosic biofuels energy is one we recommended the state focus on in support of Governor Granholm's initiative to make the state a leader in alternative energy -- but we can't be a leader in every sector."

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