This project's business partners are not in agreement and it appears the proposal won't go anywhere. The solar system would be combined with steam energy produced by the plant's gassifier. The plant, which officials have described as a large still, would be one of the first in the world to use a patented anaerobic fermentation process to produce ethanol from garbage on a large scale. plant would use only 50 percent of the energy it creates on 240 acres north of Schneider, Lake County. He said he hopes to have it up and running 60 days prior to July 30, 2013, -- making the company eligible for about $57 million from the U.S. Department of Treasury as a green energy incentive. These incentives were set aside as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.