Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
for Knoxville's First Biodiesel Production Unit

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
1:00 pm Eastern

UT Institute of Agriculture
Joe Johnson Animal Research and Teaching Unit
Knoxville, Tennessee

This event will celebrate the completion of Knoxville's newest biodiesel production unit. A joint partnership of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, this biodiesel production unit is capable of converting waste vegetable oils to 250,000 gallons of biodiesel annually. Funded by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation's Alternative Fuels Innovation Grants program, this unit is bringing the future of biofuels to Knoxville!

We invite you to join

Joe DiPietro
UT Vice President for Agriculture

Stephen Smith
Executive Director, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

Jim Fyke
Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation

Ken Givens
Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Agriculture

and others to celebrate this great occasion.

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