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VW's top executive to speak at Tennessee clean energy summit
KNOXVILLE — Volkswagen Group of America’s top executive is the featured speaker for the opening day of Tennessee’s first clean energy summit in Knoxville.
VW’s Stefan Jacoby will talk at today’s lunch about environment as a factor in the German automaker’s decision to build its first U.S. assembly plant in two decades at Chattanooga.
Gov. Phil Bredesen, former U.S. Sen. Howard Baker and the University of Tennessee’s Baker Center for Public Policy are host for the summit. It is aimed at developing strategies for Tennessee to be a leader technologies such as energy-efficient lighting, alternative fuels and renewable sources like solar and wind.
Bredesen later today will join representatives from DuPont and the University of Tennessee to break ground on a new cellulosic ethanol refinery in nearby Vonore.
The summit continues Wednesday.
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