{"id":384302,"date":"2010-03-03T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2010-03-03T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:22:06","slug":"exclusive-chicago-eyes-80m-second-generation-biofuel-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/384302","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Chicago Eyes $80M Second-Generation Biofuel Refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/biofuel.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Biofuel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chicago City Council could greenlight the development of an $80 million, second-generation ethanol refinery on city-owned land in the west side of Chicago, a source familiar with the project tells GER.<span id=\"more-6730\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A vote on the resolution approving the project is scheduled for next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which is in the early stages of development, will produce cellulosic ethanol from municipal waste and is expected to cost between $60 million and $80 million.<\/p>\n<p>Our source tells us that developers\u00a0 will likely finance the biorefinery with a combination of debt and equity and are in talks with a couple of Chicago-based institutional investors, which he declined to name. The project <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2010\/02\/this-week-in-green-energy-wheres-the-money-in-washington\/\" >could also use Department of Energy loan guarantees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/3pEGB5Jm3QA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago City Council could greenlight the development of an $80 million, second-generation ethanol refinery on city-owned land in the west side of Chicago, a source familiar with the project tells GER. A vote on the resolution approving the project is scheduled for next Wednesday. The project, which is in the early stages of development, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}