AUBURN – Auburn University’s Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts will demonstrate AU’s mobile biomass gasification unit on Thursday, May 15, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., near Alabama Power’s corporate offices in Birmingham.The gasifier and power generation unit will be on display in the Alabama Power visitors parking lot at 18th Street and 7th Avenue North, across the street from their corporate headquarters.
Alabama Power and Auburn University are working together to develop cost effective systems to convert renewable biomass to electrical power and help meet Alabama’s energy needs.
Charles McCrary, chairman, president and CEO of Alabama Power, will be on site from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
On hand to answer questions about the gasifier, renewable energy and about the collaboration between Alabama Power and AU will be Steve Taylor, director of the AU Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts and head of the AU Department of Biosystems Engineering; Larry Fillmer, Executive Director of AU’s Natural Resources Management & Development Institute; and representatives from Alabama Power.
For more information on Alabama Power’s sponsorship of the mobile biomass gasification unit, go to
