The UW-Madison plans to build a $100 million research facility to house a federally funded bioenergy research center that it will head.
….The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center will focus on basic research toward new technologies to convert cellulose in nonedible plants into energy as a way of increasing U.S. energy independence.
Funding of the facility will be a state and university effort.
Gov. Jim Doyle committed $50 million in state funds for the facility Tuesday, but that funding will have to be approved by the state Legislature. The UW hopes to raise the other $50 million with gifts, grants and company investments, according to Al Fish, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management at the UW-Madison.