The Clarendon County Development Board, in conjunction with the South Carolina Clean Energy Business Alliance, will host a public meeting Sept. 18 as part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Rural Development Rural Business Enterprise Grant that is designed to connect economic development officials in Clarendon and Colleton counties with industrial biofuel companies.
The grants will help fund studies on transportation biofuel investments for commercial and military use in each county.
South Carolina Clean Energy Business Alliance program manager Andrew Epting said in a release the studies will facilitate “a dialogue between four industrial scale biofuel production companies, the Clarendon County Development Board, the Colleton County Economic Development Alliance and feedstock availability and distribution experts.”
“The result will be a report detailing all required physical and natural assets these companies need to locate large commercial biofuels production facilities in South Carolina,” Epting said.
He said the ultimate goal is to “facilitate clean energy manufacturing in the Interstate 95 corridor.”
The Clarendon meeting is open to the public, but space is limited for observers. Those wanting to observe should contact Andrew Epting at andrew@scceba.biz no later than 5 p.m. Monday.
