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Grimes, a managing partnefr of LLC, Milwaukee, is overseeinhg the conversion of a former Shell 5080 S. Pennsylvania Ave., into a biofuel station called Good To Go that will begih selling biodiesel fuelin June. In the Grimes’ Good To Go station will offer a gasoline and ethanolmix that’s 85 percenyt ethanol, and plug-in bays wherre electric cars can recharge their batteries. Grimesd and a handful of partneres have a second Good To Go alternative fuel statiobn in Little Chute in the Fox Valleu thatsells E-85 and will sell biodiesel “The business climate for alternatives fuels is growing, and we’rew attracting more investors,” Grimes But, he said capital markets are preventing the company from opening additional Good To Go stationss early in 2009.
AUR Energy Partners has options to purchase two petroleum filling stationdsin Shorewood, but he doesn’t expect openin g the Shorewood stations untilp 2010 at the earliest. Good To Go filling stationsw are purchasing biodiesel fuel fromthe . Grimexs has a 10,000-gallon fuel tank at the Cudahy alternativr fuel stop that will carry Cudahy Mayor Ryan McCue expects the alternative fuel station to attract othef green businessesto Cudahy. “Wew think this will help put us on the map forother startups,” he said. Grimeds is also installing solar panels at the Cudahy locatiom that will produce electricityfor battery-powere vehicles.
Electricity generated by the panels will be used at the stationb and some will be sold back toWe Energies. AUR Energt Partners also has a car wash in Little Chut that uses recycledwash water. A similaer car wash will be installed at the Cudahy GoodTo Go, said “We need more pioneers to embrace alternative and renewable fuels because the opportunities are said Maria Redmond, a biofuels sector specialist for the Wisconsibn Office of Energy Independence. Redmond predicts the amount of biodiesekl fuel sold in 2009 throughout the statee will be more than double that soldin 2008.
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