Clemson University to host statewide bioenergy summit

Published: October 7, 2009

FLORENCE — Clemson’s Pee Dee Research and Education Center will host the 2009 South Carolina BioEnergy summit from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15.

This year’s summit, which is free and open to the public, is hosted with the S.C. Biomass Council and S.C. Energy Office, and is the largest bioenergy conference ever organized by the Florence research center.

Presentations and roundtable discussions will include renewable energy and climate change legislation, bioenergy opportunities for agriculture and forestry and South Carolina’s switchgrass initiative.

Joe James, president of Columbia-based Agri-Tech Producers and founding member of the S.C. Biomass Council, will moderate a discussion of “Greening Black America,” an initiative that seeks to ensure the Southeast’s African-American farmers and rural communities are part of a economy based on renewable energy.

For more information and conference agenda, visit: www.clemson.edu/public/rec/peedee/research/switchgrass

Clemson’s Pee Dee center is at 2200 Pocket Road in Florence, just a few miles from Interstate 95.

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