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UTRF Administrator / June 9, 2011

Genera Energy To Receive 2011 Innovator Award

Monday, June 13, 2011 the Southern Growth Policies Board will honor Genera Energy with the 2011 Innovator Award presented by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell in Roanoke. Genera, a Knoxville-based clean renewable energy company, is recognized as a company that has achieved success through the adoption of innovative manufacturing practices.

For the past three years, Genera has been working to build a biofuels industry in the state of Tennessee. Since its inception in 2008, Genera has built one of the world’s first demonstration-scale cellulosic biorefineries; partnered with local farmers to grow switchgrass (an energy crop) on more than 5,000 acres in East Tennessee; and is currently developing a Biomass Innovation Park for the processing and storage of biomass (switchgrass) for cellulosic ethanol production. Genera has partnered with DuPont for the operation of the demonstration-scale biorefinery.

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