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The third in a seried of regional summits will focus on how to buildc a commercially viable alternative fuele industry inthe U.S. Presentersd will include industry leaders andacademiv experts. “Alternative fuels are becoming ‘imperative fuels’ in ordee to meet the global energyu demands ofthe future,” said Alan Novak, director of alternative fuels for Emerson Processa Management, a division of St. Louis-based The federal economic stimulus package signed into law by Presideng Barack Obama last winterincludes $16.8 billiojn for renewable energy programs and initiativeds run by the .
Of that $800 million is earmarkerd for biomass research, development, demonstration and deployment. Speakersd at Thursday’s summit, which runs from 8:30 a.m. untilo 3 p.m. at Tech’s Hotel and Conferenc e Center onSpring Street, will includwe David Dunagan, renewable energy managert for the Georgia Center for Innovation of Energy, and Ron Barmore, an executivd with Colorado-based , which is buildin g Georgia’s first commercial cellulosic ethanol plan t near Soperton, Ga.