The East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition--or ETCleanFuels--is managing or collaborating on diverse projects that are moving alt fuels into use in the transportation sector. Learn more here!

1. EVs & Alternative Fuels:
Action for Tennessee
October 2, 2010 --- East Tennessee Solar Tour
Jonathan Overly, Executive Director
East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition

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Agenda
ETCleanFuels’ 2010 Founding Partners:
1. Who is the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition?
2. Projects Examples
 E85 (& B20) Stations – Nearby and Not-so-nearby
 Outreach & Education Work
 Leading the Way with Cellulosic Ethanol – UTBI & Genera Energy
3. The EV Project – Particulars and the Need-to-know
4. More EV + Solar Work

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 8-yr old nonprofit in East TN
 Designated member of U.S. DOE Clean Cities Program (~90)
 Direct fleet & fuel supplier interaction; meetings; workshops;
presentations; adult & K-12 education; multiple newsletters
 Focused on transp. sector change:
diversify away from oil & use less!
Who is ETCleanFuels?

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TN E85 & B20 Stations – We Help
 E85 stations – 33 public stations
 B20 stations – 32 public stations (most public B20 in U.S.)
Most stations thanks to state funding, ETCleanFuels work, or stations alone.

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 State (through TDOT) offers highway incentive program:
If station will place “E85” (or “B20”) on their sign, TDOT
will erect blue “biofuel” sign… on all 4 exit signs
Getting smart – Let ‘em Know

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(Not policy, but partnership + progress)
I-75 Green Corridor Project
 Add 10 E85 & 15 B20 public
pumps @ 200 mile intervals
 Enable driving all the way from
Sault Ste. Marie, MI to Miami, FL
on your biofuel
 1,786 miles – will be the longest
biofuels corridor in U.S.
 Displace 1.7+ MGY of petroleum
 Proposed I-40 last year… didn’t
win

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Two ETCleanFuels Publications
TN Clean
Fuels
Advisor
Southeastern
Fuels Fix
Ezine

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K-12 School Presentations
• Presentations focus on relaying the basics &
importance of alt fuels and fuel economy
• ’06-’07 = 700 students reached
• ’07-’08 = 1,700 students reached
• ’08-’09 = 3,600 students reached
• ‘09-’10 = 4,990 students reached
• “1st Graders for Clean Fuels” - hits all 5 of the
senses through an interactive presentation
• “Clean Fuels Jeopardy!” a hit! “The Oil
Timeline” for younger kids

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 Demonstration Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery
 Switchgrass farmer incentive program
 Biomass Innovation Park
 Technology demonstrations
 Tennessee Biomass Supply Co-op
 Seed production capacity
Building a Biomass Industry in TN
www.GeneraEnergy.net
www.UTbioenergy.org
Biomass

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Demonstration Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery
• Collaboration between Genera Energy and DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (DDCE)
• Vonore, Tennessee: Niles Ferry Industrial Park, Monroe County, 32 acre site
• 250,000 GPY demo plant and Process Development Unit (PDU) pilot plant
• Optimized as precursor to commercial facility; long-term operation as R&D facility
• Started operations December 2009
• Multiple feedstocks: cob & switchgrass
Copyright 2010, Genera Energy LLC, NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION

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Tennessee Switchgrass Experience
• Contracting with local farmers to produce 6,000
acres of switchgrass
– Nearly 3,000 acres harvested in 2009
– Added >3,000 acres in 2010
– 1,000 acres improved varieties
• UT/Genera contract with local farmers
– ~$450/ac/yr for 3 years
– We provide seed, technical expertise
– Separate storage contracts
– Yield-based component in 2010
• Averaging about 8 tons/ac by 3rd year
– Harvesting ~2 tons in year 1
– ~5 tons in year 2
– ~8 tons year 3 and beyond

12. Switchgrass Contract Farms
• 2008 SFIP Contract
• 2009 SFIP Contract
• 2010 SFIP Contract
Cumberland
Roane
Rhea
Meigs
McMinn
Monroe
Loudon
Blount
Polk
Bradley
Vonore
Knox
Biorefinery
Copyright 2010, Genera Energy LLC, NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION

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Switchgrass

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Switchgrass

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The “EV Project” – We Are In It!!!

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The “EV Project” – Nationwide
 14,650 Level 2 (220V) Chargers
 310 DC Fast-Chargers
 40+ Project Partners
 5,700 Nissan LEAF Cars & 2,600 Chevrolet Volt Cars
 16 Major Cities
PLUS…
 1,200 New Jobs by 2012
 5,500 New Jobs by 2017

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The “EV Project” – What’s Coming to TN
 1,000 Residential Charging Stations (Level 2 – 220V)
• Installed at “home” of each LEAF purchased
 1,200 Commercial Chargers (Mostly Level 2; 60 “DC Fast Chargers”)
• Installed at strategic business parking lots
 150 Public Chargers
• For public use at municipally-owned locations (airports, parking garages)
 1,000 LEAFs
• Private Drivers
• Commercial/
Municipal Fleets

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The “EV Project” – Locations
 Hardware “footprint boundary design”
 3 major cities, plethora of connected, smaller cities

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The “EV Project” – Solar Charging
 Unique in project to
Tennessee!
 TVA SMART Station
– “Smart Modal
Area Recharge
Terminal”
 125 total in TN
 Level 2 charging
 Specific locations
(ORNL, EPRI, others)
 Storage = solar-
powered!!

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 Providing 50 electrified spaces for class 8
tractor-trailers
 Reducing emissions by 70-99%
 Adding solar!!
• Roof-top
• 30-40 kW system
• Will offset much of the initial
TSE usage to zero pollution!!
Intent – work on more transportation
projects that are EV that include solar!
Crossville TSE Project – Solar, too

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Tennessee – Leading by Example
Follow me on Twitter
– “jgoverly”
“Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path
and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jonathan Overly, Ex. Dir.
 East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition
 jgoverly@utk.edu
 865-974-3625