Friday, September 18, 2009 10:29 AM EDT
DANVILLE - The Southern Virginia Bioenergy Conference will be held Tuesday, Oct. 6, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville.
Legislators, community leaders, farmers, and economic developers are closely watching the progress of bioenergy production in southern Virginia.
The conference, "Making Innovation Work," will offer all stakeholders an opportunity to focus on Virginia's renewable energy agenda.
The event will feature demonstrations from BioStat, a web-based biomass assessment tool; an ethanol mini-biorefinery from Allard Research and Development, and a mobile gasification power generation unit by Auburn University's Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts Laboratory.
Area entrepreneurs will share their bioenergy projects and business models including an overview of the Van Der Hyde Dairy anaerobic digester project, Red Birch Energy canola bio-diesel facility, and Osage Appomattox Bioenergy plans to use barley to produce ethanol.
The conference is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Southeast Agriculture & Forestry Energy Resources Alliance as a component of the EDA Project: Leveraging R&D for Economic Development-A Commercialization System for Southside Virginia.
Although the conference is free to participants, you must register by Friday, Oct. 2.
To register, visit https://www.ialr.org/event-information or call Theresa Lewis at 766-6756
For more information, contact Dr. Martha A. Walker at 766-6761 or by e-mail at walker53@vt.edu or Dr. Liam Leightley at 766-6713 or by e-mail at liam.leightley@ialr.org.
http://www.wpcva.com/articles/2009/09/22/chatham/news/news44.txt
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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