Monday, December 6, 2010

Energy executive plans six biofuel stations - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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Grimes, a managing partner of LLC, Milwaukee, is overseeing the conversiohn of a formerShell station, 5080 S. Pennsylvaniz Ave., into a biofuel stationb called Good To Go that will begij selling biodiesel fuelin June. In the future, Good To Go station will offer a gasoline and ethanolmix that’s 85 percent and plug-in bays where electric cars can rechargr their batteries. Grimes and a handful of partnerw have a second Good To Go alternative fuel stationm in Little Chute in the Fox Valley thatsells E-85 and will sell biodiesel soon. “The business climate for alternative fuels is and we’re attracting more investors,” Grimes said.
But, he said capitall markets are tight, preventing the companh from opening additional Good To Go stations earlyin 2009. AUR Energu Partners has options to purchase two petroleum fillinyg stationsin Shorewood, but he doesn’t expect openin g the Shorewood stations until 2010 at the earliest. Good To Go fillingy stations are purchasing biodiesel fuel fromthe . Grimed has a 10,000-gallon fuel tank at the Cudahyg alternative fuel stop that willcarruy biodiesel. Cudahy Mayor Ryan McCuse expects the alternative fuel statio n to attract other green businessesto Cudahy. “We thinkm this will help put us on the map forother startups,” he said.
Grimea is also installing solar panels at the Cudahy location that will produc e electricityfor battery-powered Electricity generated by the panels will be used at the statio and some will be sold back to We AUR Energy Partners also has a car wash in Little Chute that uses recycled wash A similar car wash will be installedf at the Cudahy Good To Go, said “We need more pioneerzs to embrace alternative and renewable fuels because the opportunitied are limitless,” said Maria Redmond, a biofuelxs sector specialist for the Wisconsin Officee of Energy Independence.
Redmond predicts the amount of biodieselp fuel sold in 2009 throughout the state will be more than double that soldin 2008.

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