Doyle announces biobased energy consortium
Laptop Battery By Eric Kleefeld • 06/19/05 Madison, Wis. Governor Jim Doyle announced Friday morning the formation of a new bioenergy consortium in Wisconsin.
The Consortium on Biobased Industry, composed of various experts in both the public and private sectors, will work with the State Departments of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Administration Department's Energy Office to determine what the state government can do to advance biobased alternative energy solutions in Wisconsin.
Doyle said the commission would work to determine what government policies could best encourage the growth of new energy research in Wisconsin. Some policies Doyle suggested included tax credits and making capital available to startups, helping to move UW research results into the marketplace and using government to bring all the intellectual work together as a whole.
The commission is expected to meet six times and deliver its final recommendations next spring, according to Pat Meier, director of the Biobased Industry Initiative, a division of the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Some of the eventual recommendations could be done administratively through the executive branch, while others might take longer to accomplish legislatively.
