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Doyle touts energy independence

September 25, 2008 By WRN Contributor

Governor Jim Doyle was in Cashton Thursday to announce grants for three local companies that are developing renewable energy technology.

The monetary awards are just part of $15 million in state energy independence grants to be dispersed this year. Doyle, on the floor of Best Energies in Cashton, said that grant effort could make a big difference in Wisconsin: "if you just think of the billions and billions and billions of dollars that go to the Middle East, and if just a fraction of those dollars were circulating around in the Wisconsin economy, it would be a tremendous boost for us."

Doyle awarded $1 million to Best Energies, which is working on producing biodiesel from crude corn oil, which cannot be used as food. Innovate International in La Crosse received $135,000 to develop a product that will allow restaurants to use waste vegetable oil as fuel to heat water. Pabst Engineering and Manufacturing received $250,000 to further a bioreactor that makes biogas 75 to 90 percent faster than conventional anaerobic reactors. Doyle compared the coming challenge to convert Wisconsin to renewable energies with one from more than a century ago, saying it paid off then to turn Wisconsin into the dairy state

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