Mascoma to build biofuel plant in Tenn.

Mascoma Corp., a Cambridge company focused on low-carbon renewable fuels, plans to build a Tennessee facility that will produce cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass.

Mascoma, which is working with the University of Tennessee, today said the large-scale demonstration facility should be operational in 2009.

The Tennessee plant will be Mascoma's third cellulosic biorefinery; it has begun construction on a facility in New York state that will produce fuel from multiple sources and plans a commercial scale biorefinery in Michigan that will use wood.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)