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51% of BMW Group’s electricity worldwide from renewable sources; targeting 100%

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At its Annual Account Press Conference 2015, the BMW Group announced that, for the first time in the history of the Group, 51% of its electricity worldwide is being supplied from renewable sources. At the Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a methane gas system provides around 50% of the energy required for production.

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

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Part of the process btus come from the waste-steam from an electric cogeneration plant next to the facility. With each plant purchasing $100M/year worth of barley spread over 300,000 acres, OBE hopes to prevent some of those acres from being turned into “ sub-divisions, golf courses and parking lots ”.

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