Work starts on Flint biogas plant.

Construction has started, lab equipment has been ordered and a team of Kettering University faculty researchers have jetted to Sweden to learn more about biogas and biomethane powered vehicles.

It's been nearly a year since Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf visited Flint for the ceremonial ground breaking of the city's biogas plant, an $8-million- to $10-million private-public partnership that will bring a new alternative energy plant here and save the city millions of dollars over several years.

In August work started inside the city's wastewater treatment plant in Flint Township, as city workers have been removing pumps and pipes and are repairing a sludge storage tank, said Tom Guise, Swedish Biogas International's chief executive officer in Flint.

The project, which should be producing biogas by next fall, is a partnership between Linkoping, Sweden-based SBI, the city of Flint, state of Michigan and Kettering University.

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