Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:October 8, 2003

*News and Events NREL and DuPont to Design and Build a Pilot “Biorefinery” New Large Wind Facilities Online in California, New Mexico Massachusetts Provides $4 Million for Community Wind Power Lowe’s Installs 370-Kilowatt Solar Power System in L.A. Green Power Comes to North Carolina and Georgia Three Hydropower Facilities to be Shut Down in Maine ———————————————————————- NEWS AND EVENTS ———————————————————————- NREL and DuPont to Design and Build a Pilot “Biorefinery”DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and DuPont announced on Monday that they will work together to develop the world’s first integrated “biorefinery” that uses corn or other organic materials to produce a variety of fuels and chemicals. Under a $7.7-million agreement, the two organizations will collaborate to develop, build, and test a pilot-scale biorefinery that will make use of the entire corn plant, including the stalks, husks, and leaves. Those parts, which currently go to waste, will be converted into fuel-grade ethanol and electrical power. Purified sugars from the corn kernel will be converted into chemicals such as Sorona, DuPont’s new corn-basedpolymer. See the NREL press release at: [sorry this link is no longer available]See also DuPont’s Sorona Web site at:[sorry this link is no longer available][sorry this link is […]

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