Georgia Tech building $23M energy lab (Atlanta)
Georgia Tech is making a major new push into renewable energy research, working to find better ways to use Georgia’s abundant forests to make biofuels.
The work will take place in a new $23.3 million lab building that will serve as a model of energy efficiency.
The state University System Board of Regents has agreed to use $11.6 million in federal stimulus funds for the Carbon-Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory.
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded the grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corp. Tech was among 12 winners in a competition involving 167 applicants for $123 million in stimulus funds. The federal money will be matched locally with bond funding.
Georgia’s 24 million acres of forest, second only to Oregon, make the state a natural for research into producing biofuels from wood wastes.
Read the full story in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
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