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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