Biomass Investment Group is Trying to Convert Arundo donax to Power

A Panhandle company Biomass Investment Group Inc. of Gulf Breeze is trying to use Arundo donax to generate electricity. Wimberly, vice president of agricultural operations, is one of the key players working to create the first commercial power plant in the world to turn a giant reed into electricity.
The power plant and acreage for the crop, scientific name Arundo donax but dubbed e-grass, will be somewhere in south Florida. Its total output, 130 megawatts or enough to power about 83,000 homes, will be acquired by Progress Energy Florida, a subsidiary of North Carolina’s Progress Energy.

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