Anheuser-Busch Rejects $1.1M grant
by Pat Ferrier (Coloradoan.com) The Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fort Collins has rejected a $1.1 million experimental energy grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to replace lead-acid batteries on its fleet of forklifts with cleaner fuel cell packs.
The grant, announced a year ago, was part of $41.9 million in federal stimulus funds awarded to 13 companies to develop and deploy fuel cells.
Implementing the technology in A-B’s forklifts would have provided a “real-world” look at how fuel cells perform with daily use.
Grant recipients were expected to match the DOE funds, and A-B indicated the additional costs were too high.
…(Kevin) Fahrenkrog, (A-B’s Fort Collins manager) cited A-B’s other clean-energy projects, including installation of a molecular sieve, which increases ethanol, a byproduct of the brewing process, to a higher proof, allowing it to be directly blendable with E85 flex fuel, selling fuel crops grown at its Nutri-Turf farm to a local ethanol plant… READ MORE
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