Growth in biofuels presents entrepreneurial opportunities

Southfield's NextGen LLC is one of the growing number of players in the local biofuels market.

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In August, NextGen announced plans to build two ethanol plants in the state, one in Watervliet in Berrien County in southwest Michigan and the other in McBain in the Upper Peninsula.

Those plants recently received their final air quality permits and if built on schedule will be in operation by the end of 2008.

Each plant will produce 50 million gallons per year of ethanol, said NextGen Energy partner and Washtenaw County farmer Rick Johnson. The plants each are expected to employ 40 people, and create as many as 600 direct and indirect new jobs in the communities where they are located.

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