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Grimes, a managing partner of LLC, is overseeing the conversion of a formetrShell station, 5080 S. Pennsylvania Ave., into a biofuel statio called Good To Go that will begi selling biodiesel fuelin June. In the future, Grimes’ Good To Go stationb will offer E-85, a gasoline and ethanol mix that’sw 85 percent ethanol, and plug-in bays where electric cars can rechargeetheir batteries. Grimes and a handful of partners have a second Good To Go alternative fuel station in Littlee Chute in the Fox Valley thatsellsa E-85 and will sell biodiesel soon. “The business climate for alternative fuelsdis growing, and we’re attractingg more investors,” Grimes said.
But, he said capital marketzs are tight, preventing the company from opening additionak Good To Go stations earltyin 2009. AUR Energy Partners has options to purchase two petroleum filling stationsin Shorewood, but he doesn’t expect opening the Shorewood stations until 2010 at the Good To Go filling stations are purchasin biodiesel fuel from the . Grimes has a 10,000-gallonn fuel tank at the Cudahy alternative fuel stop that willcarrhy biodiesel. Cudahy Mayor Ryan McCue expects the alternativde fuel station to attract othert green businessesto Cudahy. “Ws think this will help put us on the map for other he said.
Grimes is also installing solaf panels at the Cudahy location that will produce electricityfor battery-powereds vehicles. Electricity generated by the panelzs will be used at the stationh and some will be sold back to We AUR Energy Partners also has a car wash in Littlde Chute that uses recycledwash water. A similar car wash will be installesd at the Cudahy GoodTo Go, said “We need more pioneers to embrace alternativs and renewable fuels because the opportunitiesw are limitless,” said Maria Redmond, a biofuels sectoe specialist for the Wisconsin Officew of Energy Independence.
Redmond predicta the amount of biodiesel fuel sold in 2009 throughourt the state will be more than double that soldin 2008.